State Redistricting
There is a series of initiatives going through the signature process to transfer the power to redistrict the state from the legislature to a non-partisan commission. All three initiatives must pass for this to take effect.
The Saint Petersburg Times reports on a technical problem with one of the initiatives.
The Secretary of State’s Office approved the wording in March and is investigating how the error slipped through.
Gov. Jeb Bush, who appoints the secretary of state, said the office should have caught the mistake. But he and other opponents reveled in the mistake and suggested organizers should have caught it.
“There is this thing in Microsoft Word that’s called ‘word count,’ ” Bush said with a grin.
The problem is that one of the initiatives has 81 words, not the maximum of 75 required.
A Bush appointee approved the defective initiative, but Bush finds the situation amusing.
