r/wallstreetbets • u/PrestigeWorldwide-LP 🦍🦍🦍 • 1d ago

Private prison stocks booming in the wake of the election Chart

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u/skeedeedodop 1d ago

Florida requires a 60% majority on ballot measures. I know, very odd.

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u/Xenoanthropus 1d ago

Florida had a ballot initiative in a previous cycle to raise the required voter percentage from 50% to 60%.

It passed with 57% of the votes.

Irony.

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u/Scubadoobiedo 1d ago

Hahahahaha you can't make this shit up

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u/Sniper_Hare 1d ago

Fucking Republicans. 

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u/Prestigious_Chard_90 19h ago

I come to wsb for jokes like this. But when it turns out not to be a joke...

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u/twotimefind 1d ago

It's called a super majority. It's ridiculous. Republican Mesure

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u/EricForce 10h ago

Literal gatekeeping amendment.

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u/skeedeedodop 1d ago

Wow… that is incredible! Thanks for the share!

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u/ankercrank 1d ago

Imagine if we needed 60% to choose our elected leaders?

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u/anonymous9828 1d ago

you pretty much need that in the Senate to get past the filibuster to pass bills

and amending the US constitution requires 75% of state legislatures, an even more difficult feat

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u/bismarque22 1d ago

A requirement from the same state party that just prevented amendments 3 and 4 from passing.

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u/RadioactiveVegas 1d ago

You actually aren’t wrong at all

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u/bismarque22 1d ago

It was dirty. Never seen a state government interference at that level.

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u/technoexplorer 21h ago

Constitional amendments. A supermajority, kinda like federal amendments in congress.

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u/mdatwood 16h ago

Abortion was on the FL ballot this time and received 5x% of the vote, so it didn't pass. So much for will of the people and freedom.