August 10, 2007
Wording Disputed in Mo. Ballot Measure
The fight over a ballot measure to ban affirmative-action preferences in Missouri is starting out as a battle over semantics.
The group leading the campaign for the proposed amendment to the state's Constitution has gone to court to challenge how Missouri's secretary of state, Robin Carnahan, wants to summarize it on the ballot.
The group, the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, wants the measure summarized as saying the state "shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential
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