Oh, so every vote really DOES matter!

So there are two state questions on the ballot.

State question 844 and 846.

846 was voter ID, right? It was basically putting voter ID into the Constitution.

Yeah.

And it passed.

It did.

As we thought it would.

Yeah, I've been describing this to my classes as sort of a nothing burger.

I'm sure to, you know, I'm sure people who are very fervent about this don't like it described that way.

But, right, we're just enshrining state law in, I mean, existing state law into the Constitution.

So for me, it felt a little bit like, you know, a hat on a hat moment, if you will, politically.

Yeah.

Well, and the voter ID as a law was passed by a vote of the people in 2010, which was state question 746.

So it's ironic that it was exactly 100 state questions ago.

It just requires people to present a valid government issued photo ID or their voter registration card.

it was um pretty broadly supported back then i forget the actual numbers but i feel like it was greater than 60 of voters approved it and so that's why we were not at all surprised that voters also approved this one although at a much lower rate i think and i think there was some skepticism even from people like jake merrick who i saw posted on facebook that was like he encouraged people to vote no on both state questions which i thought was uh unexpected yeah interesting

exactly

The other state question, of course, was one that we, I think we talked more about on this program, both you and I, and I did a crossover episode with Erica Wright from the Rural Schools Coalition about state question 844.

This one was really in the weeds as far as policy goes.

Yeah.

and uh and it went down in flames

man yeah my students were actually incredibly interested in this i ended up doing uh dissections of the state question um in all of my afg classes uh on monday uh before the vote on tuesday and um you know we're covering federalism at this point and so it just uh seemed like a really good example uh of sort of that hyper federalism right where um those local and county governments were like hey man um we're not real we're a little sauce of the central government thing we don't care if it's dc or oklahoma city um you know taking authority um to decide how how much when etc um you know the funding scheme for for those counties to be paid back uh there's ad valorem taxes and so you know for me and I know I'm getting ahead of our conversation but when the AP called that that race at about 815 820 and at that point it was over 60% in the no column I thought man Maisie's going to pull this out.

And we can go into that later on.

But I was gobsmacked, right? Very rarely do we see state questions go down in flames to that effect.

I mean, going in recent memory, you know, even the teacher pay raise.

So there are two state questions on the ballot.

State question 844 and 846.

846 was voter ID, right? It was basically putting voter ID into the Constitution.

Yeah.

And it passed.

It did.

As we thought it would.

Yeah, I've been describing this to my classes as sort of a nothing burger.

I'm sure to, you know, I'm sure people who are very fervent about this don't like it described that way.

But, right, we're just enshrining state law in, I mean, existing state law into the Constitution.

So for me, it felt a little bit like, you know, a hat on a hat moment, if you will, politically.

Yeah.

Well, and the voter ID as a law was passed by a vote of the people in 2010, which was state question 746.

So it's ironic that it was exactly 100 state questions ago.

It just requires people to present a valid government issued photo ID or their voter registration card.

it was um pretty broadly supported back then i forget the actual numbers but i feel like it was greater than 60 of voters approved it and so that's why we were not at all surprised that voters also approved this one although at a much lower rate i think and i think there was some skepticism even from people like jake merrick who i saw posted on facebook that was like he encouraged people to vote no on both state questions which i thought was uh unexpected yeah interesting

exactly

The other state question, of course, was one that we, I think we talked more about on this program, both you and I, and I did a crossover episode with Erica Wright from the Rural Schools Coalition about state question 844.

This one was really in the weeds as far as policy goes.

Yeah.

and uh and it went down in flames

man yeah my students were actually incredibly interested in this i ended up doing uh dissections of the state question um in all of my afg classes uh on monday uh before the vote on tuesday and um you know we're covering federalism at this point and so it just uh seemed like a really good example uh of sort of that hyper federalism right where um those local and county governments were like hey man um we're not real we're a little sauce of the central government thing we don't care if it's dc or oklahoma city um you know taking authority um to decide how how much when etc um you know the funding scheme for for those counties to be paid back uh there's ad valorem taxes and so you know for me and I know I'm getting ahead of our conversation but when the AP called that that race at about 815 820 and at that point it was over 60% in the no column I thought man Maisie's going to pull this out.

And we can go into that later on.

But I was gobsmacked, right? Very rarely do we see state questions go down in flames to that effect.

I mean, going in recent memory, you know, even the teacher pay raise.