Opinion ID: 2593976
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: The voter-signed initiative petition differs from the filed petition

Text: On June 20, 2006, the committee submitted to the county registrars' offices its registered-voter-signed initiative petition. Unlike the March 8 petition, howeverwith the base biennium adjusted for population changes and inflation during a two-year period, 2007 to 2009the signed petition documents included the version of section 4(4) that provided that the base biennium would be adjusted for changes in population and inflation during a four-year period, 2005 to 2009. The relevant distinctions between the different versions of the petition with regard to the description of effect and section 4(4) are set forth in the following chart. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ December 2005 December 2005 March 8, 2006 June 2006 Date and version 8.5 × 11 8.5 × 14 revised & filed circulated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Description of Inaccurate Inaccurate Court-approved Court-approved effect language description description description description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Initial 2009-11 Adjusted for Adjusted for Adjusted for Adjusted for base biennium population & population & population & population & spending limit inflation inflation inflation inflation calculation changes changes changes changes contained in occurring occurring occurring occurring section 4(4) between 2007 between 2005 between 2007 between 2005 and 2009 and 2009 and 2009 and 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accordingly, although the circulated version contained the same version of section 4(4) as the December legal-sized version, the two petitions were not the same. To the contrary, the circulated version contained the court-approved description of effect (contained in the March 8, 2006, version), whereas the December legal-sized version contained the inaccurate description of effect rejected by the district court.