The Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Election Laws will hear H 559 on Wednesday, June 3. It makes it very difficult for anyone to pay a circulator of initiative petitions.
It outlaws any payment per signature, even bonuses for high productivity. It requires paid circulators to register, and to obtain credentials, which must be shown to anyone while the circulator is working. The credentials identifies the circulator. Anyone who is paid to circulate an initiative petition, and fails to register, is subject to a fine of up to $10,000. No one may register as a paid circulator who has ever been convicted of any sex offense. If anyone who has been convicted of a sex offense nevertheless registers, and is found to have violated that provision, such person may never in his or her life again register as a paid circulator. Furthermore, no one may register as a paid circulator who has been convicted of any crime whatsoever in the preceding five years.
The bill also makes it illegal for any paid circulator to work on two initiatives simultaneously. H 559 is sponsored by Rep. Garrett J. Bradley (D-Hingham).
What day did ALL gerrymander incumbent powermad control freaks in ALL 50 State legislatures become Enemies of Democracy ???
4 July 1776 ??? or some later date.
P.R. NOW — to END the rule of the EVIL party hacks — the monsters who produced American Indian genocide, slavery, undeclared wars, depressions, etc.
“H 559 is sponsored by Rep. Garrett J. Bradley (D-Hingham).”
What an asshole.
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Perhaps. But if he is, he has a very strong affinity with the MANY assholes who paid out of state petitioners to deceive thousands of MA citizens to sign a petition to reduce gays and lesbians to second class citizenship via a ballot initiative.