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I read about half of the filing, and this looks like a pretty decent challenge. I think we'd all be on their side if it weren't Kevin Mannix, and if, say an initiative to legalize pot were torpedoed by a Republican secretary of state's office that used issues with one part of one line of one signature to invalidate entire sheets.

I would propose that the Secretary of State's office should have a secure, online program, and people soliciting signatures would have wireless devices that could help people put in their info where they are canvassing, or they could pass out leaflets that say exactly how to access the site and register in support.

Or we could scrap the whole stupid initiative system, make our representatives work full time, and have them, you know, actually legislate like they do in most other states.
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Seems a decent challenge to me. Hard to justify throwing out a whole page of signatures for one bad one.

I support changing the redistricting rules on a nationwide basis. Remember for every Oregon, where redistricting helps the Dems in power, there is a Texas where redistricting helps whole lot more Republicans.

I'm with Colin on scrapping the initiative process. Or at least greatly increasing the number of signatures needed.
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Actually, they're throwing out whole sheets because the circulator screwed up, not petition signers.
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@Actually - The article says "petitioner."
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To clear up any confusion: I was using "petitioner" to mean "circulator." I think a signer would be a "petitionee?" Yikes, what have I done.
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@ Stefan, regarding the 3:05 PM Update:

That is staggeringly circular reasoning. The whole thrust of the complaint implicitly argues that the past validity rates have been artificially held down by the arbitrary shit-canning of pages full of signatures.

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