Ballot questions should be clear, but 2 written by Wolf administration don’t pass test, critics say – By Sarah Anne Hughes (Spotlight PA) / Mar 22 2021
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HARRISBURG — Amending the Pennsylvania Constitution is a lengthy process that ends at the ballot box, where voters are asked to make consequential decisions based on a few lines of text.
For both supporters and opponents of these measures, that means each word included — and excluded — from the question on the ballot is critical.
Two proposed constitutional amendments that will be before voters this May have drawn the ire of Republican leaders in the state House and Senate, who called language written by the Wolf administration “prejudicial.”
