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Florida Amendment 9, the Ban Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling and Ban Vaping in Enclosed Indoor Workplaces Amendment, is on the ballot in Florida as a commission referral on November 6, 2018.[1]
A "yes" vote supports this amendment to:
ban offshore drilling for oil and natural gas on lands beneath all state waters and ban the use of vapor-generating electronic devices, such as electronic cigarettes, in enclosed indoor workplaces.
https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Amendment_9,_Ban_Offshore_Oil_and_Gas_Drilling_and_Ban_Vaping_in_Enclosed_Indoor_Workplaces_Amendment_(2018)
What in the absolute hell do offshore drilling and vaping have to do with each other?
john657
(1,058 posts)Maybe they decided to combine the 2 instead of 2 separate Amendments?
Lochloosa
(16,064 posts)According to the State Constitution.
john657
(1,058 posts)Republicans.
soryang
(3,299 posts)Earlier this year, the commission approved eight proposed constitutional amendments, including two single-subject measures and six that combined multiple constitutional changes.
But Joseph Little, an emeritus law professor from the University of Florida who represented Anstead and co-plaintiff Robert Barnas, said the bundling of issues, such as combining a ban on offshore oil drilling with a ban on vaping in workplaces, is an infringement of voting rights.
This bundling forces a voter to vote yes for a measure the voter opposes in order to vote yes for a measure the voter favors, Little said.
https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2018/09/07/florida-judges-weigh-bundled-constitutional.html
I remembered this from his Florida Con Law class decades ago. The issue was before the court Sep 7. I don't know the current status.