ballot title造句

• "They really got lucky with the ballot title, which is poorly worded and quite vague, " said Martha Choe, a Seattle city councilwoman who opposes Initiative 200.
• The court reviews all citizen initiatives to make sure they deal with a single subject and that the ballot titles and summaries clearly explain the proposed amendments to the state's constitution.
• In the case of the measure that will compete with Measure 61, the claim has been made that the legislature plans to set the ballot title without going through those normal channels .,
• The official ballot title for Measure 60 was : " Teacher " classroom performance ", not seniority, determines pay raises; " most qualified " teachers retained, regardless of seniority ."
• No local government revenue reductions would occur by the mere issuance of a ballot title and summary before initiative petitions are circulated, or by the mere placement of a local Proposition 218 initiative on the ballot.
• The ballot title and summary of the measure never mention the words " affirmative action, " but say Prop . 209 would end gender-and race-based preference programs in government employment, contracting and education.
• On Monday, Thurston County, Wash ., Superior Court Judge Paula Casey changed the ballot title to eliminate the word professional from the description of the football stadium, and to add soccer to the description of the facility.
• To make up for lost revenue, the Republican-controlled legislature's omission of the cuts that would result from the measure's failure in the ballot title ( the summary of the measure provided to voters ).
• The carefully worded ballot title did not mention " affirmative action, " but instead asking voters if they wanted to prohibit the state from discriminating or granting preferential treatment on the basis of sex, race or national origin.
• Within a month, the ACLU challenged I-200 in Thurston County Superior Court, arguing that the words " affirmative action " needed to be part of the ballot title because the initiative effectively would undo affirmative action programs.
• On July 22, 2008, Proposition 8 supporters mounted a legal challenge to the revised ballot title and summary, contending that Attorney General Brown inserted " language [ . . . ] so inflammatory that it will unduly prejudice voters against the measure ".
• It is also becoming more common for a local government to refuse to issue a ballot title and summary ( which initiative proponents must obtain prior to circulating initiative petitions ) and then file a lawsuit seeking to invalidate an initiative at the earliest stage of the initiative process.
• Such lawsuits may include matters relating to the impartiality of the ballot label ( the language that appears on the ballot itself ), the ballot title and summary, the impartial analysis of the measure, or the ballot arguments that appear in the ballot pamphlet sent to voters.
• It is now a common tactic for a hostile local government to file a lawsuit against the initiative proponents even " before " the issuance of the ballot title and summary ( which must legally be included on initiative petitions ) during the early stages of the initiative process.
• Other notable legislative efforts include an overhaul of the state s unclaimed property program, which would return unclaimed property to its rightful owners in a timely manner and provide interest payments on property held by the state, as well as legislation transferring the responsibility for writing initiative ballot titles from the partisan Attorney General s office to the non-partisan Legislative Analyst s Office.
• Such lawsuits have the practical effect of prohibiting the initiative proponents from gathering signatures to place their measure on the ballot ( because of the absence of a ballot title and summary ) which effectively precludes the proponents from exercising the local initiative power under Proposition 218 until at least such time as the local government lawsuit concerning the ballot title and summary has either been resolved by the courts or by the parties.
• Such lawsuits have the practical effect of prohibiting the initiative proponents from gathering signatures to place their measure on the ballot ( because of the absence of a ballot title and summary ) which effectively precludes the proponents from exercising the local initiative power under Proposition 218 until at least such time as the local government lawsuit concerning the ballot title and summary has either been resolved by the courts or by the parties.