State ex rel. Carter v. Celebrezze

The determinative issue before this court is whether the two divergent sets of part-petitions represent different proposed amendments, in which case neither has sufficient signatures to qualify for acceptance by respondent, or whether they should be considered as one, thus containing in excess of the number of signatures required.

This court has stated that “***the terms of a proposed constitutional amendment are determined by reference to the text of such proposal as contained on the initiative petition and part-petitions signed by the requisite number of electors.” State, ex rel. Schwartz,…