Arizona Proposition 136 – Pre-Election Initiative Challenges
Vote Yes!
Arizona Proposition 133
Vote YES!
Arizona Proposition 140
Vote NO!
Arizona Proposition 136 – Pre-Election Initiative Challenges
Vote Yes!
Yes Vote
- Empowers any person to challenge the constitutionality of a proposed measure/initiative before it appears on the ballot.
- Ends wait time until risky ballot measures are on the ballot and passes.
- Immediate challenges will saving time and efforts to stop measures that are clearly unconstitutional at their inception.
- Allows Arizona Supreme Court to make a ruling on constitutionality BEFORE the measure appears on the ballot.
- Currently the Courts do not feel they have the legal ability to decide ahead of ballot vote.
- Proposition 136 will give them the power to make a decision early and efficiently.
- For more clarity on this measure, and all other ballot measures in Arizona – go to https://youtu.be/sAmV-oApAtw and https://www.ivoteaz.org/
No Vote
- Cannot challenge the ballot measure before it is on ballot and becomes law.
- Courts will maintain their position of “hands tied” even when the ballot measure is clearly unconstitutional.
- Yes Vote – supports amend. Which means
- Requires primary election for partisan offices;
- prohibits/stops primaries where all parties run in same primary, regardless of party affiliation, such as top-two, top-four primaries; AND
- State’s primary election law supersedes local ordinances.
- No Vote – stops the AZ Consti. Amendment and maintains the status quo on primary election laws.
- Support/YES vote
Arizona Proposition 140 – “The Single Primary for All Candidates and Possible RCV General Election Initiative”
- Yes Vote – Requires candidates to receive the “majority of votes” in general elections.
- Majority of votes systems – an electoral system where a candidate who receives more than half the votes wins.
- If no candidate gets at least half/50% then there is a runoff election for the top two vote earning candidates. Often called two round systems.
- REQUIRES the use of RANKED CHOICE VOTING in general elections when three or more candidates advance from the primaries (for one-winner elections);
- Replaces “partisan” primaries, in which candidates regardless of party affiliation appear on a single ballot and a certain number advance to the general election, such as top two, top four primaries.
- Prohibits the use of public funds to administer “PARTISAN” PRIMARIES at the federal, state and local levels, except presidential preference primaries that include independents to participate.
- No Vote – Opposes and therefore:
- Arizona will keep semi-closed partisan primaries which means the candidate who receives the most votes advances to the general election to compete against other parties nominee;
- Arizona will keep a “plurality vote system” in which the candidate who receives the highest number of votes is elected to the office.
- Plurality Voting system – the candidate who receives the highest number of the votes, wins the election. No candidate must win a “majority” or over 50% vote to win. Just the highest number wins. “Winner takes all” or “first past the post wins” are terms often used for this voting system.
- Oppose – Vote No
- Go to page 5 HERE to read Proposition 140.
