Saturday, March 13, 2021

California: State Senator who lost recall and returned proposing two laws to impact signature gathering

State Senator Josh Newman (D) who lost a recall in 2018 only to comeback and win election in 2020 is proposing two bills to make recalls a bit more difficult (neither will impact the Newsom recall effort). 

One bill will give the recall target access to the name of signers, with some privacy protections.  

The second bill would ban paying signature collectors per signature (rather than by hour -- this is type of law exists in other stats). Actually, according to what I've read, paying by signature has been around since basically the beginning of direct democracy in California. In the early days, veterans and widows were considered the best signature gatherers. 

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