Calling the wording of a Republican-backed constitutional amendment on health care “manifestly misleading,” a Circuit Court judge in Leon County has tossed it off the November ballot.

The proposal had been drafted and put forward by the GOP-led state legislature as a counter to the new federal health care plan. It would prohibit the state from participating in any health insurance exchange that compels people to buy insurance.

This amendment was but one of three amendments knocked off the ballot because it was misleading, further illustrating the care that must be taken by the authors of such amendments prior to submitting them for ballot: