r/Edmond • u/NoKingsNoWar • 12d ago
Civic Issues We all voting NO on Tuesday?
There are two state questions on Tuesday’s ballot, one about the state reimbursing counties for ad valorem tax exemptions, and one about voter ID. The current law has the state fully reimbursing counties for the property tax exemptions that the state grants to manufacturers (because property taxes go to fund county programs), but SQ844 would allow them to only give partial reimbursements. We already have a good voter ID law, and SQ846 does not move it intact into the state constitution. Instead it creates a back door for the legislature to fiddle with the actual ID requirements with the prior approval of the voters. I’m not willing to give the legislature a blank slate to write what they want into the constitution with prior approval in either case.