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The Arizona Republic: After failing to get its desired result in 2008, the Republican-controlled Legislature will send two proposed amendments to the Arizona Constitution back to voters in 2010. The Arizona Senate voted Monday to refer to the ballot a ban on the preferential treatment of minorities and a ban on laws requiring individuals or employers to participate in a particular health-care system. The ban on preferential treatment, which has been spearheaded by California businessman Ward Connerly, failed to make the 2008 ballot after supporters were found not to have submitted enough valid signatures. The health-care initiative was narrowly voted down. Supporters of both proposals said Monday that they are confident voters will approve the amendments this time around. "We have absolutely no doubt that the people of this state really believe strongly in this issue," Connerly said.
Connerly's proposal, dubbed the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative by supporters, would ban preferential treatment or discrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment, education and contracts. In 2008, then-Secretary of State Jan Brewer, who is now governor, disqualified the initiative from the ballot after deeming nearly 140,000 signatures invalid. Only 194,961 signatures were declared valid, short of the 230,047 needed to qualify. It was one of three ballot measures to be disqualified that year for coming up short on signatures. Similar measures have been approved in California, Michigan, Washington and Nebraska. Colorado voters narrowly rejected the initiative in 2008.
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