Show HOME TAX ACT 1 VOTE BLASTED ASTED J Plans of sponsors to have a 2000 1 homestead tax exemption n law referred re re- erred to voters in the November general election received a knockout knockout knockout knock knock- out blow Wednesday when the state I supreme court dented denied a writ of man man- damns lamus to compel Secretary of ot State j E. E E E. Monson Munson to place the measure on the ballots An opinion of Attorney General Joseph Chez Cite holding July 8 S as the deadline for filing flUng the required 2162 names on petition copies with ith the secretary of state was sustained by the court ruUn ruling Replacement of names eliminated l for r technical reasons such as failure failure fail fail- ure of the e per person o to be properly o e ly j t t I I re registered must oe De completes completed Dy uy September 19 the date sponsors contended con con- tended ended was the deadline for filing the required number of names the court held Enos W. W Simons Jr of Parson led Jed other sponsors In hi petitioning tor for the writ Justice David V. W. Moffat Tote wrote the court opinion Sponsors Sponsor had filed less than names on the July 8 deadline prompting Mr Monson to refuse jurisdiction in taking steps to place the exemption law on the ballots |