Arizonans will be able to vote on two controversial ballot measures even though petition circulators broke the law, the state Supreme Court ruled late Wednesday.
In separate rulings, the justices said those who gather signatures for money are required to register with the Secretary of State's Office for each petition campaign. Chief Justice Robert Brutinel said that did not happen in either the initiative to require disclosure of"dark money'' in politics or another to cap medical debt payments.
More to the point, Brutinel said knocking the petition drives off the ballot for a problem that circulators and organizers did not create"would unreasonably hinder or restrict'' the constitutional right of the people to propose their own laws. So he and his colleagues agreed that the signatures gathered by those who did not register anew should count.Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Feed | Omny Studio That conclusion is crucial.
The"dark money" measure would would require the disclosure of true sources of donations of more than $5,000 on political campaigns. Initiative organizer Terry Goddard has said the money would have to be traced back to the original source and could not be “laundered’’ through a series of groups.
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