By Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | AZ Mirror
Arizona legislators say a trial court judge was wrong to conclude their description of a ballot proposition to end partisan primaries was “misleading” and order them to rewrite it, they told the state Supreme Court Friday in an appeal.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Melissa Iyer Julian ruled Monday that a legislative panel responsible for writing summaries of ballot measures that are sent to every Arizona voter wrote a misleading description of Proposition 140, a citizen initiative also known as the Make Elections Fair Act.
If voters approve it in November, the measure would create an open primary system where all candidates for federal, state and local offices would face off in a single primary election instead of segregated partisan elections. Those primaries would also include candidates who are politically unaffiliated.
