On March 3, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed SB 211. It requires initiative circulators to file an affidavit when that circulator’s first batch of signatures is submitted. The circulator must then not collect any more signatures until the Secretary of State notifies the circulator that his or her affidavit has been processed. Here is the text.
This should apply to every signature a petitioner collects. Collect one signature, turn it into the SOS, wait for permission to collect another.
I don’t see why they should be prohibited from collecting further signatures until notified by the SOS. Seems like this would just encourage canvassers to wait until completed with collecting signatures to submit the affidavit. It would make more sense to just make the counting of all submitted signatures pending until affidavits are validated.
Also, what is this *&^kery: “TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY; AND FOR 13 OTHER PURPOSES.”
All bills should be single issue or at least with content germane to the main purpose.
Reasonable, common sense legislation.
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1/2 OR LESS VOTES X 1/2 RIGGED GERRYMANDER AREAS. = 1/4 OR LESS CONTROL.
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I don’t see why not.
EVERY POLITICAL REFORM THING IS AN ***EMERGENCY*** IN A TYRANT REGIME.
HOW POOR ARE THE POOR SUFFERING FOLKS IN GOP FASCIST TYRANT REGIMES — LIKE ARKLAND ???
NOW OLDE BILL / HILLARY CLINTON NEVER TO BE DETECTED IN ARKLAND ???
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@JB,
Typically, legislation has an effective date, which has to be at least a minimum number of dates after passage (signing by the governor). In Texas, laws are often set to become effective on September 1 following the regular legislative session. This is beyond the minimum 90 days and ensures that most ordinary legislation goes into effect on the same day so that may be publicized. Sometimes the legislation will set a later date such as January 1. A legislature would hopefully not want a change in election law to go into effect during an election period (imagine if the distance limit around a polling place changed from 100 feet to 150 feet on October 18, or if violation went from a misdemeanor to a felony. On October 17 you are campaigning 125 feet outside a polling place; on October 18 you are doing the same thing and are arrested.
In this case, the legislature wants this law to go into effective immediately. They don’t want signing requirements to change. Otherwise some signatures would be valid, while those gathered under the same circumstances at later date were not valid. A state constitution may permit an emergency or urgency clause that overrides a minimum period. Such a bill will require a super-majority to pass.
There is probably a provision in the constitution that requires the bill title to reflect the contents of the bill. Sometime or other an Arkansas court ruled a bill void because of a discrepancy. Perhaps the additional text was extraneous to the bill’s purpose. Maybe the drafting office changed a “20 days” in current law to “twenty days” to match their current style guide. “and for other purposes” covers this change, and an Arkansas court has ruled that it was sufficient notice.
I’m for it.