LANSING – Voters overwhelmingly say they will consider each of the five constitutional amendments on the November ballot one by one and not simply reject them en masse, according to a poll commissioned by Gongwer News Service.
Once five constitutional amendments were certified for the ballot, discussion began about whether voters might simply decide to reject them all out of confusion or frustration. And one television advertisement from opponents of the collective bargaining, renewable energy and home help care proposals has a message of “hands off our Constitution” in which a woman, reviewing the ballot proposals, says, “None of this junk belongs in our Constitution.”
But just 16 percent of voters said in a survey conducted by Lansing-based EPIC/MRA that they were inclined to vote no on all proposals amending the Constitution. Eighty-two percent said they were more inclined to review the proposals individually before deciding how to vote.
The survey was conducted Thursday through Saturday among 600 likely voters via live telephone interviews and has an error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Republicans were more inclined to say they would vote no on all of the proposed constitutional amendments with 25 percent saying they would do so compared to 72 percent who said they would consider the proposals individually. Eighty-four percent of independents said they would consider the constitutional amendments individually while 15 percent said they would just vote no on all of them.
Among Democrats, just 8 percent said they would vote against all five constitutional amendments while 90 percent said they would consider them individually.
Otherwise, the percentages were consistent with the overall number among all demographics and regions of the state.
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