Though the turnout for last Tuesday’s state constitutional amendment election was low, Wood County’s 10% turnout was better than the state’s 8.7%.

The state and the county approved all eight amendments.

Of the 32,378 registered voters in Wood County, 3,255 turned out.

Prop. 1 was OK’d in the county by 82%, authorizing the professional sports team charitable foundations of organizations sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association or the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association to conduct charitable raffles at rodeo venues.

Prop. 2 met approval from 54% of local voters, authorizing a county to finance the development or redevelopment of transportation or infrastructure in unproductive, underdeveloped, or blighted areas in the county.

Prop. 3 passed with 82% of the vote, prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from prohibiting or limiting religious services of religious organizations.

Prop. 4 was approved by 65% locally, changing the eligibility requirements for a justice of the supreme court, a judge of the court of criminal appeals, a justice of a court of appeals, and a district judge.

Prop. 5 had a 66.6% approval rating, providing additional powers to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct with respect to candidates for judicial office.

Prop. 6 passed with 90% of the vote, establishing a right for residents of certain facilities to designate an essential caregiver for in-person visitation.

Prop. 7 also had 90%, allowing the surviving spouse of a person who is disabled to receive a limitation on the school district ad valorem taxes on the spouse’s residence homestead if the spouse is 55 years of age or older at the time of the person’s death.

Prop. 8 had the highest approval at 91%, authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a member of the armed services of the United States who is killed or fatally injured in the line of duty.