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The November 4, 2008 ballot in Michigan included two ballot measures. A drug policy reform initiative was certified for the ballot earlier in the year. Supporters of two additional measures turned in their signatures by the state's early July deadline. An unsuccessful lawsuit was filed seeking to overturn the decision to remove the Legislative and Judicial Restructuring Initiative from the ballot.
November 2008 ballot
Did not qualify
| Type
| Title
| Subject
| Description
| Result
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| CICA | Gov't Restructuring Initiative | Gov't restructuring | Eliminate two Supreme Court Justices, downsize the state court of appeals courts and add 10 local judges; establish a nonpartisan redistricting commission; rollback elected officials' salaries; require disclosure of income and assets; reduce number of State Senators from 38 to 28 and State Representatives from 110 to 82; limit elected officials' retirement benefits to the same as state employees; cut two state departments and cap the number of boards and commissions; make the Elections Division independent of partisanship and ban elected officials from campaigning in elections they oversee; allow no reason absentee voting; require post election audtis of procedures and mandate voting systems paper trail | Filed signatures July 7th, but court ruled it too broad; lost court appeal
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Recall campaign
| Legislator
| Party
| District
| Reason
| Outcome
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| Rep. Andy Dillon | Democrat | House District 17 | Voted "Yes" on income tax increase and service tax | Dillon retained
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