King County Charter Amendment No. 7 Charter Amendment by Citizen Initiative

Full text is here.

Basically, this makes it a bit harder to get County Level Initatives on the ballot and changes it from the nonsensical two step process where first you vote if you want it on the ballot, then if that passes it appears on the next ballot… and makes it just go straight on the general election ballot if it gets enough signatures… with a higher number of signatures required.

I fundamentally think that ballot initiatives are generally not the right way to do things. And if they are possible at all, it should take a pretty high bar to get on the ballot, and that sort of initiative should be a very rare thing. Maybe one or two a decade.

So this effort to make it a little bit harder to do is fine with me.

My vote:

YES