When Columbus voters head to the polls this fall, they’ll find three proposed changes to the Georgia Constitution near the bottom of the ballot, below the races for governor and U.S. Senate. Each one asks a simple yes-or-no question, but the official wording can be hard to follow.
Here’s what each amendment would do, in plain English.
Amendments are listed in the order they appear on the ballot, according to the official state booklet of proposed amendments. You can preview your own sample ballot at mvp.sos.ga.gov.
Amendment 1: A bigger tax break for large farms and timberland
What it does: Raises the maximum amount of farm and timber land that can qualify for Georgia’s “conservation use” property tax break, from 2,000 acres to 4,000 acres per owner…