This election's ballot will have several important and confusing questions for residents of Prince George's County.
Prince Georgians who Care has a web page with the text of the Questions up for referendum, including the charter ammendments. It's a good place to start and has some useful information.
As always, some of the best, most thought-out analysis and explanation has been done by the league of Women's voters. Use this link to see their information.
To find out the real deal, the actual text and true details of the ammendments
are available
here
on the Gazette's web site. It is in PDF (Portable Document Format).
If you're having trouble getting it to appear on your screen,
see if you have Adobe's Acrobat Reader installed. If you don't, you
need to get it (free from Adobe's web site).
If you do, you may need to download the PDF, then start up
Acrobat Reader to read it.
You can also do a search in Google, which
will allow you to view a the document as converted by them.
Unfortunately, the PDF is formatted for tabloid (11 x 17) paper, and you may
have trouble printing it. By shifting the images onto letter size paper,
I have successfully made a
6-page set (about 9 point font) and a 9-page set (about 12 point font) that
should print out correctly. However, they are in Postcript format,
which geocities doesn't recognize as a legitimate format. I've posted them
here with the filename extension '.pdf' but you cannot view them directly in
Acrobat Reader. If you have a "postscript printer" you may be able to print
the files directly. On Linux or Unix, use the 'gv' or 'lp/lpr' command.
I will also try converting them to PDF, but I'm not sure what the result
would be.
The 6-page set - postscript (each 11x17 page fits on 2 letter size pages):