Arizona ballot news
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In wake of signature issues, reforms suggested
With 3-4 of 2008's ballot initiatives experiencing problems with signature validity rates, some voices are calling for reform of laws governing the initiative process in Arizona. One recommendation is to ban the practice of paying circulators by the signature. (In Ohio earlier this year, in the case of Citizens for Tax Reform v. Deters, a federal judge threw out Ohio's ban on pay-per-signature.) ...more
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Governor Opposes Majority Rule Citizen Initiative
Gov. Janet Napolitano on Wednesday called "misguided and wrong" a ballot proposal that would significantly raise the bar for future initiatives intent on raising taxes or mandating state spending.
The Majority Rule proposal would require for passage that any statewide citizens initiative increasing taxes, fees or allocating spending receive support from not just a majority of voters who cast ballots, but a majority of all registered voters. That would include those voters who don't participate in the election at all.[1]
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Lawsuit filed opposing wording on initiative
The TIME Initiative committee has filed a legal challenge in hopes of preventing the Secretary of State from using a ballot description the initiative's supporters claim is designed to inspire voters to reject the proposal in November.[2]
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Statewide Health Care Initiative abandoned
The Healthy Arizona Coalition was forced to abandon the initiative after the group could not gather enough funding to support the ballot measure. The group blamed Arizona's slow economy and it being the epicenter of the Republican presidential campaign. The group plans to instead place the health care initiative on the 2010 ticket.[3]
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Taxrevolt brings property tax cut to Benson
Marc Goldstone, chairman of the Arizona Tax Revolt, hosted a meeting for Benson residents to learn about the tax system that gave Arizona the highest property tax rate of all the mountain states. Goldstone accused the state of creating only Band-Aid fixes for the past 28 years and it working to pass the Arizona Property Tax Valuation Rollback (2008).
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