[EL] Court strikes down super majority in Washington

[Larry Levine]

Yes. I'm aware of that and I've been involved in campaigns in some of those
states. The point I intended to make was whether this Washington decision
contains the seeds of an attack on the requirement of a two-thirds majority
to pass a ballot measure, since the electorate is acting as the legislature.

Larry

 

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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

--- 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 

 

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