All Pennsylvania voters — yes, independents and minor-party members, too — will be asked to consider four ballot questions on May 18.

Two are about as non-controversial as possible: whether to enshrine race-based protections in the state constitution and whether to give fire departments with paid personnel access to a state-run loan program. 

The other two? That's a different story. Spotlight PA has a handy breakdown of the questions here, along with what they'd do, who is in favor, and who isn't.

THE CONTEXT: Two proposed constitutional amendments will ask voters if they favor limiting a governor's executive power in a declared disaster, like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Voters will be asked if they support giving the General Assembly the ability to terminate disaster declarations without the governor’s consent — only a governor can end them now — and the final say on whether to continue declarations after 21 days. (How this might affect future emergency responses is very much up for debate.) 

The questions were written by the Wolf administration, and the GOP argues the language is prejudicial and likely to sway voters away from reining in a governor's executive reach. And GOP lawmakers aren’t the only ones who think so.

Berwood Yost, director of the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College, said the questions use “loaded terminology," lack context, and fail to give voters "information they need to make an informed decision."

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