Were you confused by Amendment 1 on solar energy?
If so, you're not alone.
Florida voters struck down the controversial solar amendment on Tuesday, making it the only amendment that did not pass.
It had 51 percent support but needed 60 to pass.
Almost 60 percent of Duval County voters supported the amendment. So did the Florida firefighters union, until the day before the general election.
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Firefighters withdrew their support of the amendment on Monday, suggesting that the ads about the solar amendment were misleading.
Voters came out to the polls on Tuesday after heavy campaigning on both sides of the amendment.
Environmentalists are calling the result a win. Many environmentalists called the language used on the ballot a bait-and-switch tactic.They were worried that voters would vote yes, thinking that they were voting in favor of solar energy, when the opposite was true.
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The amendment said power customers who don't install solar panels can't be required to subsidize customers who do.
Some environmental groups said what that would have done was give power companies the ability to penalize solar customers for buying less energy from them.
The Solar Energy Industries Association released a statement Tuesday night, which reads in part:
By voting to stop an amendment funded by the state's wealthy utilities, Floridians made clear that they care about their rights— Their property rights, their right to competitive markets and their right to go solar."
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