It would make perfect sense for a finding on the constitutionality of an initiative prior to it being voted on. Would save a lot of cost, trouble, and controversy. However, there is no law in this state that allows it. What Eyman does (and he has stated this in the past) is attempt to "send a message" to the pols by having these initiatives voted on. Well, that and supplementing his frat boy watch business! I would hate to see the initiative process eliminated in this state. It is true grass roots democracy in action. However, I would like to see a law enacted that if an initiative is found to be unconstituional, the costs of the case would be borne by those that sponsored the initiative. Eyman has put initiatives on the ballot that he knew were clearly unconstituional hell, everyone with a brain knew it. But in his desire to send the message, we go down the road, vote in the initiative, incur the costs of the court case, then provide fodder for the pandering talk show hosts. Possibly having this law in force would compel Eyman (and any other initiative sponsors) to do their homework and bring initiatives to a vote in a proper fashion. I won't hold my breath however.