MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters approved a change in the state constitution to scale back some of the governor's veto powers. A more than 70 percent majority of voters passed a statewide referendum to amend the constitution to ban the so-called "Frankenstein veto."

It means Governor Jim Doyle and his successors will no longer be able to cobble together words and numbers from multiple sentences in spending bills to create policies never approved by lawmakers.

But the governor still has strong veto powers, and Doyle's aides say he will keep using it when he feels it's needed to protect taxpayers and priorities when the Legislature goes too far.