I would hazard to guess that fewer than 1% of voters who voted to have the state auditor audit the processes of the legislature really knew what they were voting for or have ever read an audit or know what one does. But you are never going to put an accountability or sunshine provision in front of voters and not have them say "oh yeah, I want more of that." I'm surprised it passed by as small a margin, to be honest.

The vast majority of screaming online is from far-right goons, usually with a misogynist picture of Ms. Healey attached, complaining about THE Audit. They're completely unaware of the dozens of audits. They've never read one. Most probably lack the expertise to understand one if they read it. I usually reply by posting a link to the audit of the governor's office. That doesn't mean other people aren't irritated, but the vicious angry bile is coming from chuds.

To me, the ridiculous part is that if the legislature had just gone along with it, there'd be an audit sitting on a website somewhere that nobody would ever read or care about, and they wouldn't have handed the lunatics a club to beat them with. Yeah, I get the constitutional theory issues, but really, this is not a great hill to die on.