<p>PROPOSITION 56 supporters promise less "partisan gridlock" if voters lower the threshold needed to pass a budget in Sacramento to 55 percent from a two-thirds vote of the state Assembly and Senate.</p>
<p>Opponents counter that there would be less gridlock because state lawmakers would happily raise taxes. So the Proposition 56 folks came up with some gimmicks to entice voters fed up with politics as usual. One provision would revoke the pay of legislators for every day they miss the budget's ostensible June 15 deadline. Another would make legislators work until a budget is passed.</p>