Constitutional Amendment Election Turnout

I predicted that voter turnout would be less than ten percent, and I was wrong. My error was in assuming that the early vote would constitute a larger share of the total vote than it did. Usually, more than half of the total vote is the early vote. In this election, only 40.09 percent of the total vote was the early vote. The total vote of 1,972,842 constituted 12.36 percent of the registered voters (15,962,988). Nine of the ten constitutional amendments were adopted, which means that the current number of constitutional amendments rises to 507. The only amendment that was not adopted was Proposition 1, which would have allowed municipal judges to hold more than one elected judicial position. The highest voter turnout was for Proposition 4, which amends the constitution to prohibit a tax on the incomes of individuals. The amendment that was adopted with the highest percentage of votes was proposition 10, which allows police dogs to be adopted by their handlers after the dog is retired from active duty. One propositions barely passed, which was proposition 9 that dealt with taxes on precious metals. The table demonstrates each proposition and the percentage of the vote for and against.

Proposition 1 PERCENT Yes 34.56% No 65.44% Proposition 2 PERCENT Yes 65.62% No 34.38% Proposition 3 PERCENT Yes 85.09% No 14.91% Proposition 4 PERCENT Yes 74.41% No 25.59% Proposition 5 PERCENT Yes 88.00% No 12.00% Proposition 6 PERCENT Yes 64% No 36% Proposition 7 PERCENT Yes 74.12% No 25.88% Proposition 8 PERCENT Yes 77.83% No 22.17% Proposition 9 PERCENT Yes 51.60% No 48.40% Proposition 10 PERCENT Yes 93.75% No 6.25%