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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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"

[–] b34rd 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always treat it as a donation. If it ever pays me, that's just a nice bonus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, if you can afford it and think of like that, that's cool