Analysis: Reviving Initiative Process Could Invite Mischief | Mississippi News

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators can do business the easy way or the hard way if they revive the state’s initiative process that was recently invalidated by a state Supreme Court decision. The easy way would be to adopt the same process that Mississippi has used for decades, tweaking it only to resolve a problem pointed out in the court ruling. The hard way would be to open the process for lots of debate that could muck up an already complex system and make it even more burdensome for citizens petitioning to put…

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