Amendment’s name, ballot title rejected
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Attorney General Dustin Mc-Daniel has once again rejected a proposed popular name and ballot title for a constitutional amendment designed to thwart potential attempts at making it easier to unionize. An attorney general's opinion, prepared by Assistant Attorney General Jack Druff and released Monday, described the proposal as "ambiguous" and in some respects "even more confusing" than the previous proposal. The group proposing it calls itself Save our Secret Ballot in Arkansas. It is part of a national group dedicated to placing the proposed amendment on the November 2010 ballot. The Arkansas proposal, championed by state Sen. Gilbert Baker, R-Conway, would "preserve and protect" the secret ballot for union-organizing votes. McDaniel must certify the ballot title and popular name of all initiated measures before petitions may be circulated. The proposed constitutional amendment would need 77,468 signatures from registered Arkansas voters to get on the ballot.
Clint Reed, an advisor to Save our Secret Ballot, issued a statement saying any attempt to say that the measure's popular name is unclear "is pure political" and that "it appears [labor unions] have the ear of General McDaniel.
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