Downsizing proposition will be on ballot

By Eileen Buckley & Bert Gambini

Buffalo, NY – A downsizing proposition will be appearing on next week's ballot in Erie County. A state Appellate Court ruled in favor of downsizing advocate Kevin Gaughan's lawsuit suit to put the downsize measure on the November 2nd ballot.

But even before the judge ruled, the Erie County Board of Elections began the preparing proposition Tuesday. Republican election's commissioner Ralph Mohr says the were running out of time. About a half million ballots must be printed by Tuesday.

Voting machines must be sealed and transported to the polling places as of this morning.

It was the Board of Elections that appealed a recent decision by a Buffalo judge for the proposition to appear. The issue landed in the courts, when the Board of Elections claimed a technicality preventing them from preparing it for the ballot. The proposition will be asking voters if they the legislature should be cut from 15 to 11 members.