AZ Anti-Petition Law Taken to Referendum
Voters in Arizona will get a chance to ratify or block a piece of legislation passed in the waning days of the last legislative session. More than 146,000 signatures were turned in for verification to the Secretary of State, of which, 86,405 need to be validated.
The bill has provisions which drastically alter election laws in the Grand Canyon State. These provisions include limiting who is able to turn in an early ballot at a polling place and making requirements regarding the ability to propose laws through the initiative process much more onerous.
“The initiative process is designed to allow voters to consider an issue in a democratic fashion,’ said Kari Nienstedt, state director of the Humane Society of the United States.
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