Arizona's new governor, Jan Brewer, who took over when Janet Napolitano joined President Obama's cabinet as homeland security secretary, is seeking to limit initiative power in the state. Among other changes, she wants to undo a constitutional amendment that makes it next to impossible for the legislature to change a law enacted by ballot initiative.

As the Arizona Republic explains in this thorough history, Brewer is re-opening an argument that is as old as the state. 

Both the outgoing governor, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary-nominee Janet Napolitano, and her successor, Jan Brewer, have called for major reform of the state's initiative process. So has the Arizona Republic, in this recent editorial.  It's hard to blame them. Arizona saw perhaps unprecedented signature fraud last year. A typical validity rate for signatures collected in an initiative campaign is 70 percent. But multiple measures last year had validity rates of less than 50 percent. That's strong evidence of institutional, across-the-board fraud.