Re: Marriage equality in Iowa

"David W. Fenton" <XXXusenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Jed Davis <jld@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes; the requirement for votes of two consecutive sessions of the
legislature is a nice feature, though the article I saw didn't
mention the votes' threshold.

Wasn't the Massachussetts situation similar? The Iowa legislative
votes require only majorities in both houses, but I think the MA
situation was some supermajority? Paging Mr. Coren...

Other way around, alas: it was a 25%, um, submajority? of a joint
session of the two houses, as the amendment was introduced by a petition
rather than by the legislature itself (in which case it'd've been 50%).
The second one failed even that, so it never went to a popular vote.

It's Connecticut that, IIRC, requires a supermajority (3/4?), but only
of a single legislative vote.

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