Taxpayers to Limit Campaign Spending v. Fair Political Practices Commission

Opinion

EAGLESON, J.

The California Constitution provides: “If provisions of 2 or more measures approved at the same election conflict, those of the measure receiving the highest affirmative vote shall prevail.” (Const., art. II, § 10, subd. (b). Hereafter, section 10(b).)1 Rules of statutory construction, however, require an attempt to reconcile statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter whenever possible in order to avoid conflict and give effect to every provision. The threshold question in this case is whether section 10(b) either permits application of these rules of…