PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers crafted an explanation of a measure to make major reforms in the voucher system in a way that is illegally designed to convince people to vote against it, a trial judge has ruled.
In a new decision, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin said it was wrong of the Legislative Council to try to tell voters that if Proposition 212 is approved it will give the initiative organizers the right to go to court and sue participating families and schools if they violate any of the new rules in the ballot measure.
That, Martin concluded, is not true. So he ordered the Republican-controlled council to recraft it — this time without the misleading language — and do so by Aug. 21.
