http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/opponents-of-arizona-voting-restrictions-score-a-victory
with the acceptance of health care just when you thought the wicked witch of the west was human the republican genes start to bubble up i guess in rebellion of her health care caving.
This week was an important one for opponents of an Arizona election law designed to throw voters off the rolls and make it harder for third parties to get elected.
On Tuesday, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett (R) certified that a referendum on the law, known as HB 2305, will be on the ballot in next year's general election.
HB 2305 passed earlier this year. Considered a voter suppression effort by opponents, the law would raise the bar for third parties getting on the ballot, add obstacles to citizens initiative efforts, and kick voters off that state's permanent early voting list if they fail to vote in two consecutive elections, among other things. The referendum effort began just days after the law was signed by Gov. Jan Brewer (R) in June."Today was a big win for Arizona voters and voting rights, but it's only part of the battle," Julie Erfle, chairwoman the umbrella group that backed the referendum effort, said in a statement on Tuesday. "The public response to our effort has been overwhelming across party lines, and we are absolutely confident that Arizona voters will toss these unnecessary and self-serving voting roadblocks in the dumpster where they belong."
they act like they have more voters on their side because of all the skulduggery they engage to cheat those voters out of their right to vote, that's not approval they lost the house vote by over a million but they were saying "the American people voted us back in",
i understand they need to reassure themselves but a house built on lies is a lying house, and you can't believe your own falsehoods any longer the truth is out there.
The umbrella group, Protect Your Right to Vote Committee, announced this week that Bennett had confirmed 111,000 valid signatures had been gathered for the referendum. 86,405 was needed to qualify for the ballot.Robbie Sherwood, a spokesperson for the referendum effort, touted how quickly the signatures had been gathered."We literally had 90 days in a brutal Arizona summer to get the signatures," Sherwood told TPM on Wednesday. "And we burned like the first week and a half just trying to get organized. We didn't start gathering signatures until July 1. And we still came in with like 146,000. And then our verification rate was 80 percent, which is, again, unheard of here."But the fight may not be over. Barrett Marson, a spokesman for two political committees that support the law, told Tucson Weekly that his groups will go to court to try to invalidate some of the signatures collected.
this is where the republicans have lead us, going to court to usurp another Americans rights, for malicious reasons, if we don't act accordingly 2014 it will get worse.
