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Show v U Haworth Explains Petition Misunderstandings Ross A. Haworth, assistant secretary sec-retary of State today said, "Several "Sever-al instances have come to the attention at-tention of the office of Secretary of State of a misunderstanding of a pamphlet containing two proposed pro-posed liquor initiative petitions prepared by this office in accordance accord-ance with law. "Chapter 210 of the 1933 laws provides that any group of citizens citi-zens may file petitions with the Secretary of State to have any law they desire to propose appear upon up-on the ballot at the general election. elec-tion. The law requires that they must have signers to these petitions peti-tions numbering at least 10 per cent of the total number of persons who voted for governor at the preceding election. "If these requirements are met it is then purely a ministerial duty of the secretary of slate to prepare pre-pare and print a sufficient number of pamphlets to distribute one to each registered voter in the Btate. The law further provides that any organization may file arguments for or against the proposed measures mea-sures and these arguments must be printed in the pamphlet with the proposed measures. Any organization organiza-tion filing such arguments, however, how-ever, must pay for the coBt of the arguments. The pamphlets are then distributed by the various county auditors to all registered voters In each county. "In accordance with these regu, latlons the secretary of state prepared pre-pared the aforementioned pamphlet." |