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Monday, March 04, 2013

Proposed New Referendum Requirements Will Be Amended, Election Law Subcommittee Chair Cardin Says

The Referendum Integrity Act, a bill that’s been lambasted as voter suppression, contains numerous clauses that could potentially disqualify thousands of online petition signature pages before they are even signed.

But the chairman of the subcommittee in charge of HB493, Del. Jon Cardin, D-Baltimore County, who is also a co-sponsor, says his goal in reforming petition legislation is not to make the process more difficult.

Cardin said his committee may consider a number of amendments this week that would address concerns of the bill’s opponents, as well as supporters of the legislation’s disclosure provisions.

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3 comments:

bkln said...

Fn douche bags.

bkln said...

Take there kids OUT and let the Illegals IN???

Anonymous said...

I've read this pile of garbage. It's written with everything they could think of including a hundred "Catch 22's" to make it impossible to create and have a petition. Draconian B.S.