Proponents of an Oregon initiative, to require non-partisan redistricting, have filed a state court lawsuit over the Secretary of State’s procedures for checking signatures. The Secretary of State is invalidating entire petition sheets, if even one signature on the petition carries a date that seems to be outside the date range for that sheet.
Generally when signers of petitions are required to fill in the date of signing, they use all numerals. Thus, August 6, 2010 is typically indicated “8/6/2010.” But many people nowadays use the European system of indicating a date. In Europe, and increasingly in the United States, people put the date first, and then the month, and then the year, for example “6/8/2010.” If even one person shows a date that way, under the Secretary of State’s procedures, the entire sheet is eliminated. The lawsuit hopes for a ruling that invalidation of the entire sheet is contrary to state law. Thanks to BallotBoxNews for the news about this lawsuit. The case is Derfler v Brown, 10-c-18408, Circuit Court, 3rd district (Salem), filed July 21, 2010.
ALL incumbents in major legislative bodies have become EVIL Enemies of the People — and will do ANY-thing to stay in power.
Most rational States have a law regarding the date – numbers stuff — to control MORON bureaucrats.
P.R. and App.V.
Specifically the date columns in most/ ?all petitions are headed by small —
Month — Day — Year sub-columns.
But – this is the New Age — who reads any more about any thing ???