Jack, after rereading the article, RM's link, and a quick google search, my issue/objection was based on semantics...
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The article states that blank ballots will count as a "no" vote, as in the government (the clerks office) checks it off/counts it as a "no" vote.
That is very different than saying that blank ballots effect the ultimate outcome of the initiative based on the absolute/superduper super majority rules in that state.
The article should have been more precise.
As far as absolute super majority rules for constitutional amendment ballot initiatives:
For those placed before the voters by state legislators, 33 states only require majorities (California, where I live being one of them). The rest seem to be a hybrid of Minnesota's law, e.g. A majority of the votes on the initiative, providing those votes equal X amount of all votes cast in that election (in one case as low as just 40%).
With regard to voter initiated constitutional amendments only 18 states allow them in the first place, and in California only a majority is necessary to pass them.
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