Dathan Trevino Texas- Tuesday, the state of Texas had its Constitutional Amendment Election with 14 different propositions up for approval. The 14 propositions range from a variety of subjects across the state, including “the right to farm” and the improvement of state parks.
The election, held Nov. 7, passed nearly all 14 propositions with the exception of Proposition 13, which would have increased the mandatory age requirement of retirement for state justices and judges.
Political Science Professor Alvaro Corral said this could be a result of the “obvious critique” of political leaders often being old.
“It just may be the case, that America is sort of, a little bit more comfortable in forcing people into early retirement, at least their elected officials into early retirement, so that they can kind of get, a different, sort of new generation of elected leaders,” Corral said.
In Cameron County, less than nine percent of registered voters casted a ballot.
Cameron County Elections administrator Remi Garza said the number is nearly double the turnout rate for previous constitutional amendment elections.
“We had 20,326, total ballots that were cast. that’s 10,628 during early voting, 8,376 on election day, and 1,322 by mail,” Garza said.
KVAQ-TV reached out to hidalgo county but received no response.
Primary Elections will take place in March, where Texas voters will help in deciding the candidates for the presidential election.
