Posted on 11/06/2002 3:08:45 AM PST by pttttt
A post-Election Day gripe:
Usually a bunch of state constitution referendum questions and local or state bond issues show up on the ballot.
There usually isn't a problem getting information on the bond issues; their constituency is usually easy to identify, so there's someone out there for them - if only the brokerage who gets to sell the bonds - and you can tell a lot from their agenda. And there may also be someone against them. So you can make an informed voting choice if you take the trouble. (And then they usually pass anyway because there seems to be a what-the-h*ll factor on bond referenda, but that's a different discussion.)
But state constitutional amendment referenda are another matter. It's like pulling teeth to find out where they came from and who wants them and why - no info ever seems to be out there and there's no explanation. So I usually vote against them, even though, for all I know, they may be a good thing, because I don't want to vote something into the state constitution I don't understand. But they're engraved in granite in the state constitution once they pass (BTW they usually pass too).
Has anyone else faced this? Is there a website - liberal or conservative - somewhere where these things get analyzed? Sorry FR, haven't found it here.
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