Court Opinion

ID: 9656226
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 19:43:43.759087+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:30.487397
License: Public Domain

QUINCE, C.J.,
dissenting.
I dissent because I do not believe that this financial impact statement complies with the spirit and purpose of these statements. A financial impact statement is intended to give the voters a realistic, and I believe, unbiased statement of what the voter might expect the State or other political subdivision of the State to expend in order to implement the amendment if it should pass. The statement should be neutral and state both sides of the expenditure issue, if there is more than one possibility. The financial impact statement should not be used as a scare tactic to discourage the voter. This financial statement is not a neutral statement of the financial consequences. The other side in this instance is that there may be little or no financial impact beyond what is already experienced when legislative districts are being established. This possible impact could have also been stated as the drafters only used thirty-four of the seventy-five words allowable for financial impact statements.
*1203I would not allow this statement to be placed on the ballot.