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signatures by telling people it is merely <br />to get proposals on the ballot for a <br />vote (so many sign without actually <br />reading the proposals to know whether <br />they would support them or not, after <br />merely hearing them presented as <br />though they were good ideas). It then <br />outspends any opposition in advertising <br />the proposals as cure-aAs for something <br />or other, and thus manipulates public <br />opinion. In some cases the process has <br />changed public opinion from 70% on <br />one side to 70% on the other. The <br />initiative thus turned out to be the key <br />to power for special interest money. <br />Voters, says Broder, are not the <br />primary source of initiative proposals, <br />but their targets. He says this process <br />can get anything on the ballot and <br />almost anything adopted. The process <br />~~' <br />