Supreme Court opinion explains decision keeping Prop 204 on ballot

By Natasha Khan

Cronkite News

Ann-Eve Pedersen, chairwoman of the committee who supported Proposition 204, said Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court to remove the initiative from the November ballot was unnecessary. / Photo by Sarah Pringle

Weeks after voters rejected Proposition 204, the Arizona Supreme Court issued an opinion affirming its decision that allowed the measure to stay on the November ballot despite objections from Secretary of State Ken Bennett.

“There really was no need for this to be challenged or to go to this level,” said Ann-Eve Pedersen, chairwoman of the campaign that put the measure on the ballot.

The measure would have established a 1-cent-per-dollar sales tax to fund education, transportation and human services that would have raised an estimated $1 billion a year.

In July, Bennett rejected 290,000 petition signatures gathered by the ballot’s backer, the Quality Education and Jobs Campaign, because the proposed law attached to the petitions didn’t display the same text as the proposed law filed with the office.

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