{"id":23093,"date":"2012-01-07T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/washingtons-citizen-initiative-filing-period-for-2012-began-friday-david-ammons\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:17:12","slug":"washingtons-citizen-initiative-filing-period-for-2012-began-friday-david-ammons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/washingtons-citizen-initiative-filing-period-for-2012-began-friday-david-ammons\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington\u2019s citizen initiative filing period for 2012 began Friday | David Ammons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a release from David Ammons, communications director for the Office of Secretary of State.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Initiative activist Tim Eyman filed five measures, dealing with $30 car tabs, traffic cameras, supermajority for taxes, the initiative process and creation of an office of inspector general to investigate fraud. Typically, Eyman submits a number of proposals and drafts and decides later which one(s) to pursue with a full initiative signature drive. Sponsors of a \u201csafe cannabis act\u201d submitted a proposal and another sponsor proposed a \u201cworking driver\u2019s license\u201d of 13.5 hours a day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The filings, which may be done online, cost $5.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sponsors have until early July to submit 241,153 valid signatures of registered Washington voters, although the state Elections Division<\/a> recommends bringing in at least 320,000, in order to cover the customary number of duplicate and invalid signatures.\u00a0 If validated, the measure(s) go to the November general election ballot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Initiative proposals are sent to the state code reviser for review and the attorney general for preparation of a ballot title. Then they are assigned a number and after a period for court challenge(s) of the ballot title, the sponsor is free to print petitions and circulate for signatures.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The actual signature check for Initiative to the Legislature 502, dealing with marijuana legalization, will begin next Wednesday at 8 a.m.\u00a0 Sponsors submitted enough signatures (over 350,000)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Initiative activist Tim Eyman filed five measures, dealing with $30 car tabs, traffic cameras, supermajority for taxes, the initiative process and creation of an office of inspector general to investigate fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23093"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}