Mark Belling Podcast #167: The flip side of two controversial technologies: the boom in the Wisconsin economy for companies involved in AI, and the number of crimes solved because of Flock cameras. And, Mark goes through the three Constitutional amendment referendum questions on this fall's ballot and why you should vote yes on all of them.

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Every year right about this time, folks who are really interested in voting and being good citizens start looking and seeing what's on their ballot.

And the thing that often flummoxes people are referendum questions, especially these referendums to amend the state constitution.

That's because they're often worded sort of convoluted and people have a tendency to think that the question is maybe meant to trick them.

When local communities just put, say, an advisory referendum or even when school referendums are on the ballot, the drafters write the question in a way to make it seem so attractive.

And people get suspicious over that.

Well, the state constitutional amendments are different.

They have to be drafted in precisely the appropriate way to change the Constitution to say what you want.

There are three questions on the ballot.

The constitutional amendments, no matter where you live in the state, will be the first three.

If, for example, you live in a community that has a school referendum or maybe a fire services referendum, those will all be after this.

Everywhere in Wisconsin, the first three questions will be the constitutional amendments.

I can give you the cliff notes first.

Vote yes on all three.

Very easy to remember.

Now, one of the things that happens is as we get closer to the election, particularly when we get closer to early voting or even voting on election day, people will look at these ballot questions and they'll contact me and say, what should I do when? I want to respond that I already covered that.

Don't you listen to the podcast? So we'll talk about these again, but this is going to be the big hit on them.

I'm going to walk kind of briefly through all three of them and tell you why they're good ideas.

First of all, the background.

The Constitution in the state of Wisconsin is a bigger deal than state laws.

State laws can be changed whenever you get both houses of the legislature to pass a bill and the governor signs it.

We change laws all the time.

Every time we pass a budget, we put zillions of provisions in.

They're there.

They're on the books.