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Nevada Supreme Court decides ballot initiative matter

In LVCVA v. Secretary of State, the Nevada Supreme Court rejects challeges to decisions by the Secretary of State which precluded three initiviative petitions from appearing on the November ballot: "These are consolidated appeals and cross-appeals concerning three initiative petitions. These appeals present a fundamental procedural question -- whether the initiatives' circulators' failure to include statutorily mandated language in their affidavits verifying the signature -- gathering process voids the signatures collected. Under this court's precedent, the initiative circulators' affidavits must substantially comply with certain statutory requirements. Here, the circulators' affidavits completely failed to include two statements mandated by NRS 295...continue to full post

Full post as published by Harmful Error on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).