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Committee adopts amendment to limit voter pamphlet legal text for very large measures, targeting $1.7 million in printing costs
Summary
The committee approved an amendment to exclude most legal text for ballot measures that exceed 100 pages, directing the voter pamphlet to include the first 20 pages and reference the full text online or by request; the change was framed as a one-time fix for an unusually large referendum and passed out of committee after elections officials and the Elections Commission weighed in.
The Special Rules Committee considered two competing ordinances to limit the volume of legal text printed in the voter information pamphlet for very large ballot measures. President David Chiu told the committee that the proposals were intended to avoid printing "phone book"-sized handbook mailings and estimated the city could save roughly $1.7 million for the coming election if the measure were amended.
Chiu described a compromise amendment he circulated that would not apply to charter amendments but would apply to ordinances and declarations of policy. For measures whose legal…
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