“They choose death”
I’ll bet that half of those voters thought they were voting for the exact opposite.
The ballot verbiage on that race was (purposely) bafflegab. FReeper LS said he has a PhD and it confused him. Dr. Gina Loudon said she didn’t understand it. Hubby is PhD and I asked him if he understood what it meant; he didn’t.
The issue needs a do-over.
PhDs are notoriously ignorant outside of their own fields.