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Here in ky, to nobody's surprise, we have some Republican bullshittery.
Prop 1 adds wording to the state constitution that makes it illegal for all non-US citizens to vote... Which is already the State law. Vote NO.
Prop 2 is a doozie - enables the state to funnel public funds to charter schools under the guise of "educational freedom" or some bullshit like that. HARD NO on that one!
Yeah, 1 is already illegal and 2 sounds like they want to take public dollars away from public schools and feed it to religious ones. 🙄
Kentucky's state constitution has uniquely strong protections for public school funding, and amendment 2 nullifies all of them in one go.
Here's the wording:
I genuinely think most KY voters don't know what notwithstanding means, if they even bother to read that far.
100% it's gonna go to religious schools. I'm not even sure that any non-religious private schools even exist in this backwards-ass state
They do. There are a few elite non-religious private schools in Louisville.
But they are far outnumbered by parochial schools.
Already happened in TX. It’s gone about as well as you’d expect.
We have the same thing as your prop 1 on the ballot in South Carolina. It's already illegal at the state and federal level. It's just on there to help get low information conservatives to the polls, since they are convinced the Democrats want to change the law to let "the illegals" vote.
Hello fellow Kentuckian!
I saw a story this week that pointed out in Arkansas, 80% of students who got vouchers didn't enroll in private schools. In other words, if your parents couldn't afford private schools before, they most likely still couldn't even with vouchers.
That's what's on the ballot for KY. NO ON 2!
WKYT is calling Amendment 2 as a No, with a 30 point margin.
My wife and I tried, looks like we lost the presidential for KY, not super surprised, but disappointed.
Glad we won prop 2 though. We don't have kids, and they're not in our future, but they already keep taking too many funds from public schools.
Anyone have the result for prop 1?
It appears that it passed
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article294703464.html
Ahh bummer, thanks for the update. Hopefully it doesn't make it too difficult to vote
You want to vote Yes on 1 because it doesn't change anything and then they can't whine about Demoncrats trying to let illegals keep voting.
Until they use it as a reason to require you to bring proof(s) of citizenship when registering to vote.