On December 10, California Assemblymember Mike Gatto introduced ACA 11, to increase the number of signatures for statutory initiatives from 5% of the last gubernatorial vote, to 8%. Existing law requires initiatives that change a statute to collect 515,117 valid signatures. The bill, if enacted, would raise this to 824,186 signatures.
Even if the legislature passes the bill, it is a proposed constitutional amendment and thus would not go into effect unless the voters approved it.
The EVIL gerrymander PARTY HACK robots want NO opposition in the making of LAWS.
Just say/vote NO on ACA 11 if it gets approved by enough gerrymander MONSTERS to be put on the CA ballots.
P.R. and App.V. — NOW — before it is too late.
I see the extremists are out today. If my memory stands up, this legislation just returns the signature threshold to how it stood in the old days, from 1910 through 1968. Back then, California worked, a lot better than it does now. Seems to me to be a reasonable throwback measure.
Increasing the number of signatures for a statutory initiative will only limit the initiative process to truly wealthy interests.
The best initiative process in the nation is the Massachusetts initiative, which only requires signatures equal to 3% of the last gubernatorial vote. The Massachusetts initiative is an indirect initiative. If proponents gather five-sixths of the requirement, the legislature must consider the idea. If the legislature does nothing, or does something that the proponents don’t like, they can return to the job and finish the petition. California should imitate Massachusetts and create an indirect initiative and lower the number of signatures, not raise it.