What happens when voucher referendums are voted on by the citizens of a state?
They don’t pass.
0 wins and 11 losses.
From Indiana University at Bloomington:
You might say, “Hey, that only shows 8 times vouchers were voted down.” True.
It doesn’t include the recent 2024 election day defeats of vouchers in Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska.
I wonder how people in those states would vote if a referendum asking to use rainy funds went directly to people affected by the largest natural disaster to ever hit that state.
North Carolina expanded vouchers overriding a veto with a gerrymandered supermajority that passed a hurricane relief bill that doesn’t even give relief directly to western NC people.
From the popular blog/vlog Tales of An Educated Debutante:
Though Senate Bill 382 is said to be for hurricane relief, it is nothing more than a power grab from petulant children or should we say, lawmakers.
How much money for the NC victims of the Hurricane Helene?
Zero.
No rental assistance.
No small business support.
No direct assistance to families.
Instead, 117 pages of the 131 page “Disaster Relief 3” bill is far less about hurricane relief and far more of an overhaul to move executive branch power away from recently elected Democrats to Republicans.
You can find the text of that bill here.
