[EL] Court strikes down super majority in Washington

[Richard Winger]

Washington state's initiative policy does not let the voters amend the state constitution.  So, as the court says, the initiative was just a statute, not a state constitutional amendment.  Generally states with the initiative process let the voters amend the state constitution, so generally anti-tax initiatives (like California's Prop. 13) do amend the state constitution.  For that reason, it seems to me the Washington State Supreme Court opinion won't have impact in other states.

Richard Winger

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--- On Sat, 3/2/13, Larry Levine <larrylevine at earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Larry Levine <larrylevine at earthlink.net>
Subject: [EL] Court strikes down super majority in Washington
To: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Date: Saturday, March 2, 2013, 8:22 AM

It’s just a state court decision and will have no impact outside of Washington, but could the court’s rationale find life in other states. And if I recall correctly, in the case of a ballot measure are the voters deemed to be acting as the legislative body. I seem to remember that as being the reason why tax exempt organizations are allowed to lobby the voters in a ballot measure campaign just as they are allowed to lobby the legislature.Larry   http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020453654_supremetwothirdsxml.html  
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