Court Opinion

ID: 9763125
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:37:05.911319+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:39.408883
License: Public Domain

*614McDERMOTT, Justice,
concurring.
I agree with the majority that the advertisement in the present case was insufficient, and that is sufficient reason to end the matter for the nonce: what is not properly noticed cannot be properly discussed; neither can ballot questions that are ambiguous, multiple and not in plain English be argued and discussed. When a ballot question leaves more questions than answers, or means more or less than it says, such can be as lethal as inadequate notice. The time between initiation of a constitutional amendment and its submission to the voters is designed to prepare and present an understandable question for full discussion. In so important a matter nothing less than full compliance with applicable notice requirement can be acceptable.