October 05, 2006

Election Bills Vetoed by the Governor

The Governor has vetoed the following three election-related bills:

AB 2946: This bill would have required election officials to invalidate any signatures collected in violation of any provision of state law relating to the circulation of a statewide initiative, referendum, or recall petition. In addition, it would have barred the use of the doctrine of substantial compliance to excuse a violation of any provision of state law relating to the circulation of a statewide initiative referendum or recall petition, except for nonsubstantive grammatical and spelling errors. And it would made it unlawful to pay signature gatherers based on the number of signatures obtained on a petition, or to pay someone based on the number of registrations they secured or the number of absentee ballot applications they distributed.

AB 3024: This bill would have authorized the experimental use of vote centers in Solana County for local elections.

SB 1598: This bill would have required initiative, referendum and recall petitions to specifically indicate whether they were being circulated by a volunteer or by a paid circulator. It also would have required the petition to disclose the names of large contributors.

Posted by Randy Riddle at October 5, 2006 11:13 AM