On December 21, the Michigan legislature passed HB 6595. It makes it more difficult to qualify statewide initiatives. No more than 15% of the submitted signatures could come from any one particular U.S. House district. Also, each petition sheet must say if the circulator is being paid to collect signatures. Each paid circulator must submit his or her own separate affidavit to the same office to which the initiative is submitted. The bill does not amend the state constitution, so assuming the Governor signs it, it will go into effect. The vote in the Senate was 26-12; in the House, 57-47. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news.
Now standard ANTI-Democracy stuff by the fascist Elephants.
Likely court cases coming by usual suspect communist Donkeys — likely with speedy court actions.
Bad bill.
It likely violates the Michigan Constitution (Article II Section 9), which sets the number of signatures required for an initiative.
The limit may be irrelevant. A petition that received 1/14 of its signatures in every district would have signatures from 8% of the gubernatorial vote. If 15% of signatures were gathered in a single district, it would require 17% of the gubernatorial vote.
If a petition is getting that many signatures in a few districts indicating its popularity there, then it is likely unpopular elsewhere.
Party moron HACKS who wrote the 1963 MI Const had *trust* in future gerrymander moron HACKS
— to enact only **good** party hack laws [ HA HA HA ].
Sorry — NO trust in MORONS.
About 5 sections of Mich Const have been declared UN-constitutional regarding the USA Const. —
same rot in all States.
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PR and AppV
UNEQUAL voters in each USA Rep gerrymander district —
worse each 2 years after each USA Census.
See 2010 and 2000 populations of 2000 districts.
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PR and AppV
@DR, limit any district to 16% of the gubernatorial vote for that district.
ALL subdivisions of ANY State are 100 percent arbitrary and unequal.