Josh Goodman has this article in Governing Magazine, showing how state officials who have the authority to write the title and summary of ballot measures (determining what language appears on the ballot) sometimes abuse that power.
Although Goodman does not mention the instance of California’s Proposition 14, he might have done so. Proposition 14 was on the ballot in June 2010 in California, and it imposed the top-two system. The initiative was on the ballot as “Elections. Increases Right to Participate in Primary Elections.”
Proposition 14 was not an initiative, and the ballot title was written by the legislature.
And the ballot title was actually
ELECTIONS. INCREASES RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS.
#1, thank you. I have fixed the post.
Very simple.
NO *interpretive* stuff on the ballots — written by some know it all robot party hack.
ONLY have –
Shall Prop. Z be enacted ???
YES
NO
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i.e. require the voters to perhaps actually look at the texts involved.
NO shortage of pro and con websites, phone, etc. now available on ALL New Age proposed legislation.
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Members of legislative bodies have their staffers who actually read SOME of the bills voted on in the various gerrymander legislative bodies.
#2, “liberated” or “unshackled” from the partisan primary system would be more accurate than “imposed”.