John G. Stewart lives in Knoxville and is a former assistant general manager and vice president of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He is aghast but not surprised at the idiocy of TN's Constitutional amendments.

Pity the poor voter this time around, especially when it comes to the four constitutional amendments on the ballot. First, the wording of the amendments themselves is all but incomprehensible. Who writes this stuff?

Then the media — and your mailbox — are filled with one half-truth and one misleading assertion after another.

The classic example of this are the assertions being trumpeted far and wide by the advocates of constitutional Amendment 3

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