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MY TURN: Prop 1 fails review

by ART MACOMBER / Guest Opinion
| October 30, 2024 1:00 AM

After much arm-waving and bumper sticker arguments, I decided to review the actual text of Proposition 1. To my knowledge, no attorney has offered an analysis for the voter. Based on my reading, it should fail for vagueness, complexity, unfairness and its need for new executive rules.

Initially, there are no fewer than 21 typographical errors, some of which are substantive and may require a lawsuit to resolve. Even for the non-substantive errors, one has to question what kind of thinking would result in such sloppy writing. For example, proposed amended section 34-715 has duplicate numbering of its subsections. On these points alone, I would vote NO on Proposition 1 until it was properly written.

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