Florida’s ballot amendment needs 60% support to pass.
A bill protecting abortion rights in Florida’s state constitution still lacks support to pass on Election Day.
This shows the Fourth Amendment is failing, according to a new St. Pete Poll conducted for Florida Politics. Polls show nearly 54% of voters support the measure, but Florida law requires that 60% of voters comment on the ballot measure to enshrine the measure in the constitution. You are asked to vote “yes”.
Opinion polls found that just under 38% of voters oppose the initiative. That means supporters of the amendment would need support from a large portion of undecided voters, who make up 8% of those surveyed.
The Fourth Amendment would overturn Florida’s ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, effectively restoring access to the status quo before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The pollster reports a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points. The results are based on responses from 1,227 likely general election voters surveyed from October 23rd to 25th.
Notably, the measure appears to be doing well among people who have already voted by mail or in-person early voting, nearly half of those surveyed.
But even there, less than 58% of those who have already voted say they support the Fourth Amendment, and 37% say they voted against it. The remaining 5% did not say whether they voted for one measure or left blank.
The poll found that nearly 79% of Democrats support the ballot measure, while 15% oppose it. By contrast, Republicans opposed it 59% to 32%. A majority of independent voters, about 57%, support the amendment, while 36% firmly oppose it.
Almost 66% of voters under 29 plan to support the Fourth Amendment, but no other age group has more than 60% support.
About 55% of women and 53% of men support this measure.
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