A lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Montana, challenging the state’s ban on out-of-state circulators, and the state’s ban on paying circulators on a per-signature basis (for initiatives) was filed on May 9, 2018. After extensive discovery lasting many months, the case is finally moving to a decision. The briefs for summary judgment on each side are due October 4, 2019. The case is before U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell, a Reagan appointee.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
Good. I hope our side wins.
What is the problem that people have with paid petitioners, anyway?
I think the “people” who have a problem with paid petitioners are the same ones who like to feel in control of government. Paid petitioners upset the “normal” balance that they spend good bribe money to maintain!
out-of-state circulators —-
Each State = a sovereign *nation-State*
4 July 1776 DOI last para.
1777 Art ConFed
1783 USA-Brit peace Treaty
USA Const Art VII, Art IV [esp full faith and accused criminals extradition cls), Art 1-10 no State treaties
Name of regime — United ***STATES*** of America
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*internal* elections — ALL outsiders NONE of your biz
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state’s ban on paying circulators on a per-signature basis (for initiatives) — 13 Amdt violation
— like NOT paying ex-slaves for picking each oz/pound of cotton in ex-slave States.
— or like NOT paying persons for delivering each 1 Amdt newspaper on a 1 Amdt newspaper route.
— pay 1 cent for all day work in each case.
Qualifying candisates or issues for the ballot is hard, so the more restrictions there are on petition circulators, the more difficult it is to got on the ballot.
In general —
the 2019-2020 gerrymander oligarchs in ALL States are NOW quite like the gerrymander oligarchs in ALL States in 1859-1860
with their CONTROL FREAK extremist agendas.
New Age mass media is too brain dead math stupid to detect the gerrymander math ROT —
1/2 OR LESS VOTES X 1/2 RIGGED GERRYMANDER AREAS = 1/4 OR LESS CONTROL = ANTI-DEMOCRACY OLIGARCH REGIMES — with much, much, much worse primary math.
PR and AppV and TOTSOP
I’ve never understood the problem with this. The circulator makes some money, and the candidate/proposal gets on the ballot if enough valid signatures are gathered. The voters still have the final decision (unless it is unconstitutional of course)
me, another thing to consider is that nobody is forced to sign a petition. People sign, or do not sign, by their own freewill.
The real goal is to make it difficult for anyone challenging the ruling establishment to get candidates or issues on the ballot.
How soon before incumbents get on ballots by affidavits
[ as is the case for some judicial offices in some States ] ???
NON-incumbents only with zillion petit sigs or multi-zillion dollar fees ???
IE – blatant subversion of EPC in 14-1.
This idea is virtually the same as what my friends and I were talking about later in the afternoon during breakfast.