Monday, July 19, 2010
Latest Eyman initiative makes November ballot
AuburnReporter.com: Initiative activist Tim Eyman and his partners will again appear on the Washington state ballot this year. Their Initiative 1053, making it harder for Olympia to raise taxes, cleared its last major hurdle on Monday when the state Elections Division announced that the sponsors submitted enough voter signatures to make the November ballot. I-1053 became the fourth initiative to qualify for the ballot, and two others are widely expected to qualify, too. That would equal the modern record set in 2000. The all-time record is seven, set in 1914, the first year the initiative process was available. The I-1053 campaign turned in nearly 338,000 signatures, a large enough pad to allow a 3 percent random test. More than 80 percent of the 10,325 signatures were valid -- 9,187 were accepted and 1,138 were rejected, most because they weren't registered voters. The error rate was 19.62 percent.
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