Brown v. Missouri Secretary of State

ZEL M. FISCHER, Judge.

I concur with the principal opinion and would allow the ballot initiatives to be placed on the ballot. In my view, the secretary of state’s summary and the auditor’s fiscal note and fiscal note summaries are fair and sufficient as these terms have been defined by prior case decisions. “Fair” and “sufficient” have been defined in a manner that gives discretion to these elected officials, and elections have consequences.

“When courts are called upon to intervene in the initiative process, they must act with restraint, trepidation, and a healthy suspicion of the partisan who…