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Happytown: A requieum for a Twinkie, more on elections aftermath
Hostess goes out of business and takes 280 Orlando jobs with it, Gov. Rick Scott demands some answers about who made this elections mess, the final tallies on the amendment votes
Published: November 20, 2012
Amendment 1: To declare it unconstitutional to make people purchase health care (aka, the anti-Obamacare amendment).
Yes: 48.5 percent
No: 51.5 percent.
Result: Not passed
Amendment 2: Property-tax discounts for disabled veterans
Yes: 63.26 percent
No: 36.74 percent
Result: Passed
Amendment 3: State government revenue limitation
Yes: 42.44 percent
No: 57.56 percent
Result: Not passed
Amendment 4: Reduction of property taxes
Yes: 43.18 percent
No: 58.82 percent
Result: Not passed
Amendment 5: Give state legislature more power over state Supreme Court
Yes: 36.95 percent
No: 63.05 percent
Result: Not Passed
Amendment 6: Restricting funding for abortions
Yes: 44.91 percent
No: 55.09 percent
Result: Not passed
Amendment 8: Religious Freedom
Yes: 44.53 percent
No: 55.47 percent
Result: Not passed
Amendment 9: Property tax exemption for widows of first responders and veterans
Yes: 61.68
No: 38.32
Result: Passed
Amendment 10: Personal property tax exemption
Yes: 45.49 percent
No: 54.51 percent
Result: Not passed
Amendment 11: Property tax exemption for low-income seniors
Yes: 61.26 percent
No: 38.74 percent
Result: Passed
Amendment 12: Student body president
Yes: 41.55 percent
No: 58.45 percent
Result: Not passed
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