Florida Supreme Court Rejects Healthcare Ballot Initiative
by The Federalist Society
Posted September 02, 2010, 5:50 PM
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a state ballot initiative purporting to give residents the right not to buy health insurance, in light of the federal individual mandate passed in March, is "misleading" and contains "ambiguous language," and that it therefore cannot be placed on the ballot for the next election, reports International Business Times. Missouri has already voted for such a measure, and Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado will still vote in November on state constitutional amendments attempting to block the federal mandate provision from taking effect.