As to the whole "people couldn't understand the ballot" thing....that's why people need to familiarize themselves of what is on the ballot BEFORE they go to vote.
And people must have been living under a rock for the past 4 months to not know that the Democrats wanted you to vote Yes. They had the Obama ad running 24/7 for the past several months. It is one of the most expensive campaigns for a non-Presidential election. I think they spent over $100,000,000 on it.
So if someone rolled out from under their rock and walked into their voting center with zero understanding or knowledge of what they're voting for or how they should vote, then that's on them.
There are people that just don’t follow politics or watch tv. There are a lot of people that work sun up to sundown, have dinner and go to sleep.
There are also people that decided they are going to vote no, went in and saw “restore fairness” and thought “oh I didn’t know it was about making things fair” and voted Yes.
They were online in targeted ads on pretty much any website that allowed targeted ads. Facebook, YouTube, X, etc.
They were on the radio stations, on Spotify, on YouTube Music.
They were on the buses (inside and out), on the metro, and on the Marc train platforms.
They were stapled up on light poles, in bus stop shelters, on digital street ad billboards, on regular billboards, and on bulletin boards inside grocery stores and laundry mats and inside countless store front windows.
They were in print newspapers and print regional magazines as well as in the ads on their digital counterparts.
People had them out in their yards. There were signs stuck in the ground in road medians.
All with Obama's smug face (or voice) on them telling people to vote Yes.
We were bombarded with this for at LEAST 4 months.
When I say you had to have been living under a rock to not know liberals wanted you to vote Yes, I mean it.
The ironic thing is that the conservatives funding the Vote No campaigns routinely leaned into using quotes from Obama and Spanberger saying they opposed gerrymandering (obviously prior to all this) to try to sway the low information voters you're talking about.
Go look up the ads for Justice For Democracy PAC (guess we're a Democracy again, and not a Republic) to see for yourself. Peter Thiel was the one responsible for that bit of idiocy and spent around $10 million trying to confuse low information liberal voters.
Also. If people are simple minded enough to be swayed just because the word "fairness" was invoked, maybe they shouldn't be voting in the first place.
As to the whole "people couldn't understand the ballot" thing....that's why people need to familiarize themselves of what is on the ballot BEFORE they go to vote.
And people must have been living under a rock for the past 4 months to not know that the Democrats wanted you to vote Yes. They had the Obama ad running 24/7 for the past several months. It is one of the most expensive campaigns for a non-Presidential election. I think they spent over $100,000,000 on it.
So if someone rolled out from under their rock and walked into their voting center with zero understanding or knowledge of what they're voting for or how they should vote, then that's on them.
There are people that just don’t follow politics or watch tv. There are a lot of people that work sun up to sundown, have dinner and go to sleep. There are also people that decided they are going to vote no, went in and saw “restore fairness” and thought “oh I didn’t know it was about making things fair” and voted Yes.
Like it or not these kinds of people are real.
Were you one of them?
The ads weren't just on TV.
They were online in targeted ads on pretty much any website that allowed targeted ads. Facebook, YouTube, X, etc.
They were on the radio stations, on Spotify, on YouTube Music.
They were on the buses (inside and out), on the metro, and on the Marc train platforms.
They were stapled up on light poles, in bus stop shelters, on digital street ad billboards, on regular billboards, and on bulletin boards inside grocery stores and laundry mats and inside countless store front windows.
They were in print newspapers and print regional magazines as well as in the ads on their digital counterparts.
People had them out in their yards. There were signs stuck in the ground in road medians.
All with Obama's smug face (or voice) on them telling people to vote Yes.
We were bombarded with this for at LEAST 4 months.
When I say you had to have been living under a rock to not know liberals wanted you to vote Yes, I mean it.
The ironic thing is that the conservatives funding the Vote No campaigns routinely leaned into using quotes from Obama and Spanberger saying they opposed gerrymandering (obviously prior to all this) to try to sway the low information voters you're talking about.
Go look up the ads for Justice For Democracy PAC (guess we're a Democracy again, and not a Republic) to see for yourself. Peter Thiel was the one responsible for that bit of idiocy and spent around $10 million trying to confuse low information liberal voters.
Also. If people are simple minded enough to be swayed just because the word "fairness" was invoked, maybe they shouldn't be voting in the first place.
Of course I’m not one of them. I voted NO. Obviously anybody on this site is engaged in the current political climate.
You just seemed very defensive.