Ballotpedia:The BP Review/September 1, 2009/Ballot news

Volume 1, Issue 5: 9/1/2009

Ballot measure news

The Washington Secretary of State announced late on August 31 that Referendum 71 had qualified for the November 3, 2009 ballot. A Post-certification signature challenge has already been filed challenging the certification.
On August 25, voters in California were friendly to a variety of local tax measures, but they weren't friendly to a school board member in the Alisal Union School District.
Will 2009 go down as the year of the veto referendum? An Oregon tax hike referendum is likely to qualify, supporters say, but that'll be a January 2010 ballot.
The statewide November 3, 2009 ballot in Maine is a ballot hound's dream. It has marriage, taxes, school consolidation and marijuana. Here's a possible theme for the Maine 2009 ballot warrior:

He that shall live this day, and see old age,

Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,

And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'

Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,

And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'

Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,

But he'll remember, with advantages,

What feats he did that day.

There's an innovative proposal afloat in Florida for a new petition form.
Casino foes in Ohio are preparing their anti-casino arguments, but some say that the fifth time will be the charm.
Washington's Top-Two Initiative (2004) is still in lawsuit limbo.

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