On March 19, the post-trial brief was filed by some of the plaintiffs in Florida Decides Healthcare v Byrd, n.d., 4:25cv-211. This is the lawsuit that challenges the many restrictions to initiatives that the Florida legislature passed in 2025. The opening paragraphs set forth an eloquent defense of the people who engage in petitioning for initiatives.
“The opening paragraphs set forth an eloquent defense of the people who engage in petitioning for initiatives.”
That’s like putting lipstick on a herd of pigs LOL
It’s a 200-something page book. The indices run for 20-something pages. When you get to content, it starts out with something very deceptive. It tries to give the impression that everyone circulating petitions is a volunteer and believes in the causes that the petitions represent. That is not even close to being accurate, in my experience, including in Florida in particular.
The vast majority of signatures on amendments which actually make the Florida ballot are gathered by paid per signature petitioners, many or most out of staters, and most of whom are solely motivated by the money and don’t care about any causes. There are some exceptions.
I didn’t read past that.
Before AZ bot starts spamming the usual nonsense: Florida amazement are one signature per page already. It doesn’t help anything.
It’s actually a big reason why fewer volunteer signatures get collected on Florida amendments. The sign off paperwork is horrendous, especially back before the State allowed rubber stamps for the circulator name and address. Each voter signature still needs a circulator signature last time I was there, which admittedly was a while back . And at least a stamping. Used to require circulator to fill out there own name address and signature by hand for every signature they got on every issue. So imagine doing that a couple of thousand times a day LOL