The Ballot Measures That Could Change Your State Overnight

Much of the action on Tuesday night was focused on the ballot measures, where voters across the country rewrote the rules on taxes, abortion, marriage, and even how Americans cast their votes.

Florida homeowners hit the jackpot. Amendment 3 cleared the state’s tough 60% bar with 62% of the vote. The measure raises the homestead exemption on non-school property taxes to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028.

Owners of businesses and rentals won big as well. The yearly cap on how fast their taxable values can climb got cut in half, from 10% to 5%.

In North Carolina, a new constitutional amendment cut the state’s income tax ceiling in half, from 7% to 3.5%. Lawmakers now can’t go higher without voters signing off on another amendment. The measure also orders the legislature to limit how fast local property taxes can rise each year.

In Tennessee, Amendment 2 was on track to pass with more than 95% of the vote counted. It bans the legislature from imposing a property tax.

Virginia voters wrote a right to reproductive freedom into the state constitution. It covers abortion before the third trimester and even during the third trimester under certain exceptions. They also rejected the state’s same-sex marriage ban, with 57.4% voting yes.

Virginia voters passed a third amendment that automatically restores voting rights to people convicted of felonies once they’re released from prison. Until now, the governor had to sign off on each restoration on an individual basis.

Voters in Arkansas, Kansas, South Dakota and West Virginia locked citizenship requirements for state and local elections into their constitutions.

North Carolina expanded its photo ID rule from in-person voting to every method, mail ballots included. Ohio now requires photo ID at the polls and photo ID or a signature-and-identifier alternative for mail voting.

Measures barring trans-identifying males from female sports competitions passed in Arizona and Nebraska. Arizona voters also approved Proposition 318, which sets school facilities by birth sex.

Vermont voters went in the opposite direction,approving Proposal 4 by a landslide. It adds an equal protection clause to the state constitution, barring the state from denying rights based on race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or national origin.

Meanwhile, Missouri voters rejected a repeal of abortion rights. Voter ID measures were trailing in Arizona and California, and Colorado’s had not yet been called.

Idaho voters rejected an abortion-rights measure, while Nevada voters approved one for the second time, enshrining it in the state constitution. Most of California’s propositions are still being tallied.

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