Feldmeier v. Watson

How courts have described this case

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• finding substantial compliance with initiative petition in Prescott that referred to “qualified electors of the state of Arizona”
• allowing substantial compliance with initiative petition statutes if the petition “fulfills the purpose of the relevant statutory or constitutional requirements”
• “[I]f the Constitution expressly and explicitly makes any departure fatal, the initiative cannot be placed on the ballot.”
• “The initiative process reserves to the people the power to propose to the electorate laws and amendments to the constitution.”
• substantial compliance considers “the extent to which the petitions differ from the requirements, and the purpose of the requirements”
• court considering various factors to determine substantial compliance with statutory requirements in context of petitions for ballot initiatives including nature and purpose of requirements and extent of deviation from requirements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).