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Primary ballot questions are self-fulfilling, nonbinding
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School vouchers have long been a policy prize for Republicans, and now the proposal is getting new life on the May 24 primary ballot. Whether tax dollars allotted to a student’s public education should be transferable to a private institution is a nonbinding question to voters, meaning it has no direct bearing on state law. But polling on the subject could be used as ammunition to introduce a bill next year, according to University of Georgia political science professor Charles Bullock.