What sayeth the appointed party hack Supremes about such FACT ???

#11 — P.R. and A.V. — to get REAL Democracy — to END the rule of the party hack gerrymander monarchs.

Required – much more specific *self-enforcing* language for having petitions for recalls, laws and constitutional amendments — so the party hacks can NOT stop such petitions.

Currently the party hacks in the State legislatures pass laws to implement such vague petition sections (i.e. almost make it impossible to have such petitions — without having an army of lawyers and a super army of donors).

IS there a list of states that allow non-residents (of the state, NOT the US) to circulate petitions, and would that be different for Initiative/Referendum, New Party, and Established or minor party?

* “based upon the officer’s conduct during his or her current term of office”; and

* “of sufficient clarity to enable the officer whose recall is sought and the electors to identify the course of conduct that is the basis for the recall.”

In fact, some local school-board members where I live were recalled for *not* putting the high-school sports nickname up for a popular vote . . . when they’d had a legal opinion that doing so would have exceeded their legal authority. (And the replacement board found they got the same advice when they tried it. . . .)

See Mich Const — petitions for –
Art II, Sec. 8 Recalls
Art II, Sec. 9 Law Initiatives
Art XII, Sec. 2 State constitutional amendments

SEPARATE sections — NOT covered in Art. I, Sec. 3.

See the OLD real petitions for redress of grievances before 4 July 1776 — many were deemed *seditious libel* by the EVIL King George III regime.

What year did the first State have ANY elector signed petitions for ballot access for parties, candidates, issues, recalls, etc. ??? Just a mere FACT.

Before this only political parties, large unions, and special interests had the money, people and organization to get things on the ballot. The internet, and common purpose has now helped organize the voters.

Quit whining. If the elected officials were doing what they should be doing, there would not be a need for referendum or recall. Maybe now they will pay attention. The behavior of the supporters of the corupt politicions are deplorable.

STATE CONSTITUTION (EXCERPT) CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963

§ 3 Assembly, consultation, instruction, petition.

Sec. 3.
The people have the right peaceably to assemble, to consult for the common good, to instruct their representatives and to petition the government for redress of grievances.

BUT — this is the New Age — with mere Constitutions going out the window and down the drain — due to armies of MORON party hack judges and courts.

Good luck in getting any hoards of ALIEN folks (especially from out of the U.S.A. — Mexico, Canada, Asia, Africa, etc.) being witnesses in courts about possible fraudulent names and addresses on petitions — pending super high speed scanning of petitions.

How soon before NON- Elector-Voters will be signing ballot access petitions — children, felons in jails, FOREIGN folks (those Asian hoards again — Osama the EVIL and his gang, etc.), Martians from outer space, etc. ???

Try and find ANY ballot access stuff in the book Sources of Our Liberties edited by Richard L. Perry (1959, American Bar Assn).

The recent court ruling has no effect on 168.544c(3), because the plaintiff was circulating a recall petition. The court ruling was limited to recall petitions. But the restriction on candidate and initiative petitions would now appear to be sitting ducks for a new lawsuit.