PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers approved a plan of how measures on the November ballot would be explained to voters, rejecting claims by Democrats that their verbiage is mislead or even designed to deliberately hide relevant information.
In a series of party-line votes on Wednesday, the GOP majority on the Legislative Council defeated efforts by Democratic lawmakers to add what they said was language that would help voters understand each issue.
And all that, according to Senate Minority Leader Priya Sundaresan, runs contrary to state law that requires the council, made up of state lawmakers but with Republicans in control, to adopt an “impartial analysis” of each measure set for the ballot. Those summaries then go into pamphlets mailed to the home of all 4.3 million registered voters.
