Voters will see budget effects of initiatives on ballots

Legal wrangling ended in the state’s high court Friday over the four initiatives that Washington voters will decide this November.

Washington’s Supreme Court ruled that information about how three of them could affect the state budget will appear alongside the measures on the ballot.

In a two-page ruling, justices affirmed a lower court’s decision to deny an effort by Republican Party leaders to nix those “public investment impact disclosures.”

Also Friday, justices rebuffed a bid by an alliance of unions and progressive groups to force the secretary of state to redo its certification of the measures by reconfirming that the hundreds of thousands of people who signed petitions were legal voters.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/08/09/voters-will-see-budget-effects-of-initiatives-on-ballots/