Vote NO on all 3 amendments
All three are on your ballot. Here's what each one does.
NO on 1 · NO on 2 · NO on 3
Once something goes in the Constitution, it is very hard to take out.
A regular law can be fixed when it's wrong.
Amendment 1
Taking away the right to bail
Right now: Today, only people charged with first-degree murder or child rape can be held without bail.
- It adds 73 more felony charges where a judge can hold you in jail until trial. The full list is not printed on the ballot.
- You can sit in jail for months before anyone proves you did anything. You can lose your job, your home, and custody of your kids while you wait.
- If you are found not guilty, you never get that time back.
- Counties will need bigger jails. Local taxpayers pay for them.
Judges can already hold the most dangerous people. This goes too far.
Amendment 2
A permanent ban on a state property tax
Right now: Tennessee has not had a state property tax in more than 75 years. Nobody is trying to start one.
- It does not lower your county property tax by a single dollar.
- It gives the biggest corporations and data centers the same permanent protection as your home.
- It locks the state into sales taxes, like the tax you pay on groceries, to pay for everything.
It fixes a problem we don’t have and ties the hands of every future legislature.
Amendment 3
“Marsy’s Law” victims’ rights
Right now: Crime victims already have rights in the Tennessee Constitution. They were added in 1998.
- In Florida, police officers who shot and killed people used this same law to hide their names from the public. It took the state Supreme Court to stop it.
- It can make parole and release hearings slower, even for people the law says can go home.
- If victims’ rights aren’t being enforced, the legislature can fix that with a regular law.
Victims deserve better enforcement of the rights they already have.
Take it with you
Tennessee law lets you bring notes into the voting booth. Keep them out of sight while you wait in line and within 100 feet of the polls.
How and where to vote →Sources: Tennessee Lookout and Ballotpedia