Secretary Wyman certifies Citizens United I-735
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Assistant Secretary of State Mark Neary signs documents certifying I-735 Wednesday.
Secretary of State Kim Wyman has certified Initiative to the Legislature 735. The measure seeks to put Washington on record as favoring an amendment to the U.S. Constitution overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling. Wyman announced Tuesday that the state Elections Division has completed a random sample of the 333,040 signatures submitted by sponsors, confirming that there were sufficient signatures. The invalidation rate, including duplicates and signatures from people not found on the voter rolls, was 18 percent, about average for Washington ballot measures in recent decades. I-735 now goes to the House and Senate, where lawmakers may approve it, ignore or reject it and let it go to the fall ballot, or place it and a legislative alternative side-by-side on the ballot. The attorney general’s ballot title: Initiative Measure No. 735 concerns a proposed amendment to the federal constitution. This measure would urge the Washington state congressional delegation to propose a federal constitutional amendment that constitutional rights belong only to individuals, not corporations, and constitutionally-protected free speech excludes the spending of money. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ] Wyman previously certified a second initiative to the Legislature, I-732, dealing with carbon taxes.(html)
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