Here is the article of which I speak from KSL-TV.

It was pretty much a big nothingburger (and I am not intending to throw shade on the author), until I read the following sentence:

“It [a report] also suggests the Legislature should consider making public the lists of people who sign candidate petitions.”

As many of you know, I have been involved in petitioning since 1988, which in most quarters qualifies as a long time. I think if people were to know that they would go on a public list if they signed any sort of petition, it would very likely hurt the signature acceptance percentage rate for petitioners. I think this is a potentially devastating idea for any sort of petitioning.

According to this story, the bill will be named the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Act. It will be introduced by Republican State Representative David Steffen.

The Nebraska Secretary of State and a former State Senator and former State Board of Health member have charged that there was petitioner fraud and notary misconduct in the gathering of signatures for two cannabis-related initiatives that are on the ballot on Tuesday, November 5 in Nebraska. The trial won’t start until Tuesday, October 29, and early voting has already started in Nebraska.

They assert that eight notaries and four petition circulators committed fraud in the signature gathering process.

Here is a story from the Nebraska Examiner.