Most states require a simple majority vote to pass ballot measures. So did Florida, until a 2006 constitutional amendment passed, changing the threshold for voter approval to 60%. Ironically ...

Ron DeSantis, the recreational marijuana amendment appears to have failed to pass. Recreational weed remains illegal in Florida. But it got 55.9% of the vote, according to the unofficial returns ...

“[The Protect Illinois Communities Act] is an unconstitutional affront to the Second Amendment and must be ... then lasted six days before the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals put a hold ...

White, a retired professor of clinical psychology at Washington University who is now 66, was among a few hundred people who embraced, cried and cheered as the results were announced just before 10:30 ...

The actress discusses starring in the new film adaptation of “The Piano Lesson,” Wilson’s play about the Great Migration and a family torn apart by inheritance. Become an A.I. operator. The ...

There were six constitutional amendments on Floridian ballots on Tuesday and voters said "no" on Amendment 3. That means that Florida will not become the 25th state where recreational marijuana ...

There were six constitutional amendments on Floridian ballots on Tuesday and Amendment 4, which would have enshrined Floridians' rights to abortion after 6 weeks, failed. Amendment 4, titled ...

City Council amendment 2 was the more prominently discussed of the two amendments. It asked voters to decide if Knoxville’s City Council should be made up of six “regional at-large ...

More than 6 million Florida voters, representing 57% of the vote, cast their ballot in favor of Amendment 4 on Election Day Tuesday. Yet, the abortion measure failed to pass despite 1.5 million ...

Missouri became the 39th state to legalize sports betting Tuesday, approving Amendment 2 amid an upswing in legalized gambling across the United States. The amendment passed by a narrow margin ...

Amendment 4, titled 'Amendment to limit government interference with abortion' or 'abortion amendment', sought to protect abortion access in Florida. It would have made abortion legal until fetal ...

Amendment 1 would have made school board elections partisan, requiring candidates to disclose whether they are Republicans, Democrats or members of another party. However, the amendment required a ...