Consider a theoretical situation: say the total number of ballots cast in the governor’s race (for all candidates combined), is 2,000,000. And say the total number of ballots cast on the Amendment (“YES” and “NO” votes combined) is 200,000. Even if the vote for the amendment were unanimous -- if all 200,000 ballots cast were “Yes” votes --- the amendment would fail.
Why? Because the number of votes needed to pass would not be 100,001,--- a hundred thousand and one; It would be 1,000,001 -- a million and one --- a majority of the total ballots cast for all candidates for governor, combined.
So: the more vote are cast for governor, the higher the bar is set: the higher the number an amendment is required to get in order to pass. And the less total votes there are for governor, the less the total votes an amendment is required to get. A light turnout for governor makes it easier to pass an Amendment.
That leads to a purely tactical question: wouldn’t it help the Amendment if a lot of people voted YES on the Amendment, and didn’t vote for governor at all? In other words, if supporters cast their vote on the Amendment, but skipped the governor’s line on the ballot altogether?
The answer is YES.
Even most conservative prolife voters don't realize this: in order to pass Amendments we have to lower the ballots cast for Governor as much as possible, to "lower the bar" on the number of votes the Amendment has to get to pass.
I hope I'm not making myself too obscure?
We absolutely have to get the word out on this to ALL Tennessee conservative and prolife voters.
If there's a light balloting for governor, the Amendment will win.
If there's heavy balloting for governor, the Amendment will lose.
Not certainly, but very likely.
That explains it well. No reason to vote in the Governors race anyway. I’ll be relaying the info to others before election day