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Proposition 105 to appear on November ballot
Arizonans will get a chance to decide whether they want to make it harder for voters to enact tax hikes or anything that will force residents to spend more money.
Secretary of State Jan Brewer said Monday that a random check of signatures on petitions for Proposition 105 show that it will have about 226,500 valid names. That is shy of the 230,047 normally needed to propose constitutional amendments.
State law normally would require county recorders to do a name-by-name check. But Brewer said the recorders don't have time to do that before ballots start being printed later this month. That means any measure where the random sample projects at least 95 percent of the necessary signatures is presumed qualified.
Proposition 105 is the last of nine voter-submitted measures for the November ballot checked by Brewer.
Under current law, any measure that gets the support of at least half the people who voted is approved. Proposition 105 would require a majority of all those registered - not just those who vote - for any measure that increases taxes or fees.
That same requirement would exist for anything that imposes new spending requirements, not only on the state, but on any individual, corporation or union.
The proposal, dubbed "Majority Rules," is being financed largely by Jason LeVecke, who owns the Carl's Jr. and Pizza Patrón franchises in Arizona.
Gov. Janet Napolitano has labeled the measure - and its title - "misleading." She said it effectively would overrule what a majority of those who go to the polls want by presuming that everyone who did not vote was against it.
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