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Letter: Measures need more options

By Helen Howery, Vancouver
Published: November 13, 2018, 6:00am

Voting ballots don’t give the people enough power to voice their opinions. This is because, even though people may not vote for an initiative, it seems to be because of how they are written and not what they are for. Making it difficult for clearly written and effective initiatives that have one sole purpose: to be enacted.

A specific example is Initiative 1639 in the 2018 Washington Voters’ Pamphlet. The paragraph explaining what the measure would require had a list of seven items. What’s wrong with this paragraph, and the rest of the voter measures, is the amount of purposes the measure carries and the inability to explain why someone would vote against the measure.

It would seem that a better system of voting would include a poll depending on what you vote on. Such as, if you vote yes, then that’s that, but if you vote no, you fill in the reason(s) you don’t like the measure. This would also help the writers of the measure to fill in any holes in their initiative in order to make the decision clearly a yes or a no.

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