People ex rel. Taylor v. Smalley

How courts have described this case

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• violations of the Single Subject Rule create a risk that “no true expression of the will of the people can be obtained”
• multiple subject ballot measures are “contrary to [the] freedom of choice on the part of the voters, and the free and fair expression of public judgment”
• “two or more separate and distinct propositions cannot be combined into one and submitted to the voters of a county or a municipality as a single question, so as to have one expression of the voter answer all of them.”
• “[t]o present [two] propositions in a single submission, thus rendering the success of one dependent upon the success of the other, or the defeat of one on the defeat of the other, is clearly unfair to the voters_”
• “[T]wo or more separate and distinct propositions can not be combined into one and submitted to the voters of a county or a municipality as a single question, so as to have one expression of the voter answer all of them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).