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What would have happened to it?

They weren't saying they wanted to replace Section 24 (which I believe was a completely unrelated section). They wanted to add a completely new section to the Constitution of Michigan, a Section 24. But there already was a section 24. It was an incredibly stupid legal technicality, but it's unfortunately valid.

I know you want to spin this as some great Socialist trumph, but it wasn't. The judges made the correct, albiet unfortunate call. It was an incredibly minor thing to reject the proposal over, but I'm sure that the folks will do their homework and be more careful the next time they submit the proposal. It wasn't the judges making any sort of "NO! We must save the people from themselves!" kind of morality play. It was them saying "Oops, you made a technical error. Try again!"