The Arizona Supreme Court ruled today against the ballot measure, Proposition 207, otherwise known as the #InvestInEd initiative. The Court found that the language describing the measure was confusing.
Specifically the Court ruled:
Challengers claim that the 100-word description did not accurately describe the proposition under A.R.S. 19-102(A). First they claim the description did not accurately represent the increased tax burden on the affected classes of taxpayers. Second they claim the description failed to reference the elimination of bracket inflation indexing.
A majority of the court finds the proposition’s description of the change in tax rate, combined with the omission of any discussion of changes in indexing for inflation collectively “creates a significant danger of confusion or unfairness.”
The Court found that the description “is inadequate” under the law.