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Article: Irrelevant ballot arguments OK, but false or misleading ones are not. (Initiatives).(Brief Article)
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- California Planning & Development Report
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Although they cannot be false and misleading, ballot arguments need not be relevant, the Fourth District Court of Appeal has ruled. The panel issued its opinion in a lawsuit challenging the title of, and ballot arguments for, a City of Huntington Beach measure on the March ballot that would impose a tax on a power plant.
The unanimous three-judge panel reinstated a number of the city's ballot arguments that a trial court had struck down. However, the appellate panel removed a few of city's arguments as false and misleading, and the court modified the measure's title.
"In the political arena, after all, one person's relevant argument is another person's ...