Pension amendment fails
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* For a constitutional amendment to succeed in Illinois, it has to get at least 60 percent of the votes or support from 50 percent of all the people who vote. About 5 million people voted in Illinois, so the proposed pension reform amendment failed on both fronts…
Yes 2,213,269 votes 55.9%
No 1,748,601 votes 44.1%
92% of precincts reporting
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