Early voting for the March 29th election begins on Saturday and continues through next Saturday. Four Louisiana constitutional amendments are on that ballot, but a series of lawsuits are seeking to invalidate the election. The lawsuits claim the ballot language deceives voters and does not properly reflect what's in the amendments.
So what happens if the lawsuits are successful?
"The amendment would be taken out, and there would have to be another election with proper language," political analyst Clancy Dubos said. "This would probably have to go all the way to the state Supreme Court."
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According to Dubose, the Louisiana Supreme Court has invalidated constitutional amendments after a vote because of improper ballot language.
"I think there's a precedent there on the state level," Dubos said. "We've had an issue somewhat similar to this before where someone challenged the language of a constitutional amendment that was passed, and the Supreme Court later held that the language was not what it was supposed to be, and the amendment was removed."
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Dubos says he understands why at least one of the amendments is being challenged.
"Amendment 2 is over 100 pages long," Dubos said. "It almost completely rewrites an entire article of the Louisiana Constitution, and it's the article that deals with revenue and taxation. It's a really important constitutional article, and the language that's on the ballot might be 75 words long. It's hard to describe in a handful of words, relatively speaking, a proposed amendment that's, I think, 115 pages long."
Dubos says the lawsuits are calling attention to the amendments and the election, which he says is a good thing for voters.
"They need to know, first, that there is an election, and second--equally if not more importantly--they need to know exactly what these amendments do," Dubos said.