I don’t think it necessarily needs the victim to have voted for them - it’s more about the majority supporting the referendum and also the incompatible representatives. The LEPF party were elected and are doing what they do.

Also the deletions were not precise. They start in the middle of section 8 listing the government’s power to “provide and maintain a Navy” and “provide for calling forth the Militia”.

it would likely delete other stuff

It did delete more than the lines that most of the news articles mention. When I looked at the diff, the missing text seemed so arbitrary and wide in scope that a technical error was completely plausible. It made the news articles seem totally sensationalized.