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Gov. Tom Wolf s push against the questions did nothing to stop the will of the people, which in the case of Pennsylvanians translates almost always to YES.
It s now been 26 years since voters shot down a ballot question, with 22 approved in that same span of time.
And if you go back through all the elections since 1967, Pennsylvania voters have approved 68 of 73 ballot questions, or 94% of the time, according to Ballotpedia s archive. Often times, these things are not controversial, says Chris Borick, director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion. Two of those measures (on the ballot Tuesday other than the emergency powers) were completely innocuous. It’s hard to vote against them. Most voters don’t.