Lottery-related ballot measure awaits Minnesota voters - eviltoast
A group of 130 environment, conservation and business groups is working to raise awareness about the measure, which seeks to extend the distribution framework for proceeds first authorized decades ago.

Did my early voting and its not clear on the ballot that this is something that we’ve already had since 1988. Vote Yes!

  • AutoPastry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    “If you don’t vote and you leave it blank on the front of the ballot, it’s actually considered a ‘no’ vote,” said Marcus Starr, campaign director for Conservation Minnesota. “And if that’s the case, and over 50 percent of the people either vote ‘No’ or leave it blank, what would happen is that money would then have to be decided by the legislators.”

  • m_f@midwest.socialMEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Hope it passes! I’m kind of meh on the whole idea of the lottery as a tax on poor people that are bad at math, but given that it exists, I’d rather the money be used for stuff like this.

    On a related note, it’d be nice if laws generally had built-in expiration dates like this. Not all laws, but lots of them should probably require people to say “yeah, this is still good and relevant”