UT: 1984 Initiative General Election Result

[Rob]

New Election: 1984 Utah Initiative General Election Results
   
   

This measure was vetoed by Governor Matheson, but the legislature promptly overrode his opposition. Most Utahns didn't like it, either, and a federal court finally declared it unconstitutional.

[Verily]

Errr... wow at Wayne County.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Wow, even Utah isn't dumb enough to support this. Except for Wayne County.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Kind of surprising though that except for Wayne County, it did much better in urban than rural areas. Also didn't fail by much in Cache County (home of Utah State)

[minionofmidas]

This measure was vetoed by Governor Matheson, but the legislature promptly overrode his opposition. Most Utahns didn't like it, either, and a federal court finally declared it unconstitutional.

If it got rejected in a referendum, how did it end up declared unconstititunial?

[Rob]

If it got rejected in a referendum, how did it end up declared unconstititunial?

Not sure, honestly- it's hard to find details of referendums that old. Maybe the vote was nonbinding?

Re: Wayne County, I don't buy those numbers. The SoS shows 1,179 votes cast for President that year, but only 474 for this initiative. This is also about half the vote cast for every other initiative in 1984 (see the data table here). My guess is that someone at the SoS office forgot a digit... or the county ballot somehow made it difficult to vote "no" on that one initiative.

Still, Utah and Washington Counties are genuinely insane.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Looks like they forgot a digit. That adds up to right numbers.

So it did much better in urban areas than rural ones. Odd.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If it got rejected in a referendum, how did it end up declared unconstititunial?

Not sure, honestly- it's hard to find details of referendums that old. Maybe the vote was nonbinding?

Also possible a court issued an injunction before the referendum blocking it from going into effect, the referendum happened during the case, and it was declared unconstitutional afterwords.

Sad thing is, this probably would pass in a state like Mississippi.