{"id":36546,"date":"2013-05-28T22:09:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T04:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/florida-electoral-re-reform.html"},"modified":"2013-05-29T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:19:27","slug":"florida-electoral-re-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/florida-electoral-re-reform.html","title":{"rendered":"Florida Electoral Re-Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
So this is pretty cool news (though, given Rick Scott, I have to wonder what the actual motivation is, or when the other shoe will drop). \u00a0But aside from restoring earlier voting, etc., this one provision to Florida's new law caught my eye:<\/p>\n

'It also seeks to make ballot length more manageable by restricting constitutional amendments to a maximum of 75 words ….'<\/i><\/p>\n

My first thought is that such a restriction is kind of arbitrary. On the other hand, maybe it will help restrict lengthy, detailed legislation proposed as constitutional amendment, a practice that serves neither voters nor the state constitution well. Short amendments would require more careful crafting, and turn the focus on basic principles, not specific rate schedules and the like.<\/p>\n

On the other hand such amendments might carry more unintended consequences, or at least require more creative adjudicating with how they fit in with existing constitutional principles. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In general, though, I think it's an intriguing idea, an embodiment of the KISS principle, and perhaps one of the more meaningful (if less urgent) aspects of the electoral reform passed by Florida.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n In a rare case of apparently doing the right thing, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida has signed into law a bill that reverses most of the changes made after he came into office that made it more difficul…\n <\/p>\n

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So this is pretty cool news (though, given Rick Scott, I have to wonder what the actual motivation is, or when the other shoe will drop). \u00a0But aside from restoring earlier voting, etc., this one provision to Florida's new law caught my eye: 'It also seeks to make ballot length more manageable by restricting constitutional … Continue reading “Florida Electoral Re-Reform”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135590,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/10\/post-1791-constitutional-amendments-just-ruining-country.html","url_meta":{"origin":36546,"position":0},"title":"All those post-1791 constitutional amendments are just ruining this country","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 10-Dec-17 11:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And in another fun bit of Roy Moore trivia, in a 2011 appearance on a whackadoodle conservative radio show, he opined that getting rid of all those amendments to the Constitution beyond the first Ten would \"eliminate many problems.\" His spokesfolk have come out and declared that, no, he really\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/roy-moore-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":128352,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/playing-fast-and-loose-with-a-few-constitutional-amendments-in-chicago.html","url_meta":{"origin":36546,"position":1},"title":"Playing fast and loose with a few constitutional amendments in Chicago","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Oct-15 5:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While \"disappeared\" is a provocative (and inaccurate, from a South American perspective) headline, and while playing games shuffling arrestees between precincts is a very old one (check out any detective fiction from the 30s and 40s), this is still pretty darned bad.And it's pretty clearly an intentional effort by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131696,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/01\/a-look-at-colorados-ballot-initiatives.html","url_meta":{"origin":36546,"position":2},"title":"A look at Colorado's ballot initiatives","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Oct-16 8:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ballot mailings and newspaper reviews of ballot initiatives haven't swung into full steam yet, but I want to tag this article before I close it. 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