[tutstar]

You have to be a registered voter residing in Florida.

I've been thinking over the "possible" petition for a constitutional amendment to prevent the withholding of food and water.

It sounds good right? Supposedly Gov. Bush would sign it into law, and he probably would.

This is basically a cop out by the legislature imo. Passing the buck around. More of the same ole, same ole.

Basic nutshell procedure:
A petition for constitutional amendment must be submitted by a PAC to the Div of Elections for approval.

Then a certain percentage of the population has to sign it. Must be handwritten sig, no online petitions for this.( I know the proposed Marriage Amendment petition needs about 611,000 sigs.)

When you have the required amount of sigs, then your petition goes to the Florida Supreme Court to be reviewed and held up to the "constitutional light".

If the FL Supremes ok it, then your petition can go on the ballot for a vote.

[Future Useless Eater]

>>>When you have the required amount of sigs, then your petition goes to the Florida Supreme Court
>>>to be reviewed and held up to the "constitutional light".
>>>If the FL Supremes ok it, then your petition can go on the ballot for a vote.

Darn it! THAT part is extremely distressing. So if the FL Supremes legislate from the bench and make up whole new laws out of thin air, and the citizens succeed in rounding up enough signatures, that very SAME FL Supremes can just say:

"sorry, it doesn't hold up to the constitutional light"