[EL] Court strikes down super majority in Washington

[Edward Still]

Actually, a lot of states allow initiative and/or referendum on statutes.
See the table at http://www.iandrinstitute.org/statewide_i%26r.htm.


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On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Richard Winger <richardwinger at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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
> 415-922-9779
> PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
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> --- On *Sat, 3/2/13, Larry Levine <larrylevine at earthlink.net>* wrote:
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> 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
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>
> 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
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> http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020453654_supremetwothirdsxml.html
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