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OKLAHOMA CITY — Attorney General Scott Pruitt last week rebuked criticism of his revisions to four ballot measures.

Pruitt said his job is to explain the measure.

“The process is very, very important,” Pruitt said. “I take it very seriously. We work hard at it.”

He said critics of his revisions want the measures to pass.

“They think my job is to market the initiative,” Pruitt said. “That is not my job. My job is to explain the effect of it.”

The Oklahoma Supreme Court recently ruled that Pruitt’s rewrite of ballot titles for two criminal justice reform state questions that will appear on the Nov. 8 ballot was “misleading and partial.”

State Question 780 would reclassify certain low-level offenses, such as drug possession, and some property offenses of less than $1,000 as misdemeanors instead of felonies. If approved by voters, it is expected to generate savings by reducing the prison population.

State Question 781 would reinvest the savings into rehabilitation programs to treat addiction and mental illness.

Pruitt determined the original description didn’t comply with state law.