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Re:Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty... by gnicholas on Sunday September 18, 2022 @03:26PM (#32890647)
Honestly, the ballotopedia summary [1] isn't much clearer! Looks like it passed overwhelmingly (87%), so presumably folks knew what it meant from TV ads? Or they were all successfully and massively misled by the other side's ads, and they had no idea what it meant!

1: https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_Proposition_1,_Property_Tax_Li...

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Re:Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty... by amilios on Sunday September 18, 2022 @03:39PM (#32890754)
The ballotpedia summary shows that there wasn't really a campaign opposing the measure it seems? In which case presumably it makes sense that it passed overwhelmingly, if no one was voicing any arguments against it
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Re:Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday September 18, 2022 @04:08PM (#32891018)
Or people didn't understand it enough to oppose it, or interpreted it opposite to the received interpretation and so were for it, or didn't have enough money to mount a campaign, or assumed others would campaign against it, or ...
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