For many voters in the state of Florida, when they showed up at the 2010 Election, there was something they were asked to vote on that many people did completely understand. It was Amendment 4, and it asked voters to decide on whether or not to approve it. On election day, most Floridians didn’t even know what the extremely complicated question was asking them or what the Amendment was proposing.

Basically, the amendment wanted to make it so that a special ballot would have to be set up for the public to vote on changes made to land-use plans. The Amendment would have given Florida voters the right to make more decisions when it came to city and county comprehensive land-use plans in the state. However it would have also cost taxpayers more money in order to have these special ballots set up, as well as up to 200,000+ jobs.

Amendment 4 needed 60% of voters to vote “Yes”. The results have now come in and 67% of voters voted “No” on the Amendment, thus nothing will change when it comes to comprehensive land use plans.