What is the Fair Elections Petition?
Description of Ballot Initiative:
- Restores permanent early voting list.
- Provides same day automatic and online voter registration.
- Makes voting easier for disabled people.
- Reduces cancellation causes for voter registration.
- Ensures voters can vote in any in county precinct.
- Expands polling places on Indian lands, voter registration, early voting, mail voting, early voting sites, and voting rights for some under guardianship.
- Allows entrusting another person to return one’s voted early ballot.
- Specifies process for correcting signature problems on early voting envelopes.
- Allows Clean Elections grants for election administration.
- Specifies sufficient requirements for voter registration identification and early voting.
- Safeguards against registering ineligible people to vote.
- Allows providing refreshments to waiting voters.
- Restricts gifts from lobbyists, reduces privately funded candidates’ contribution limits, and increases funds available to Clean Elections candidates.
- Requires clear explanation of statewide ballot measures.
- Limits judicial review of initiative and referendum petitions and protects signatures from elimination based on: county of the signer; another writing signers name, address or date; Circulator's failure to respond to a subpoena or strictly comply with technical requirements.
- Enhances ballot privacy.
- Restricts reviews and subpoenas concerning ballots and election material.
- Stabilizes presidential election process.
- Creates voluntary tax checkoff.
- Increases lobbyists registration fees and corporate minimum tax for some.
Gila county Dems have petitions in the office, and will begin circulating them following the ADP Fair Elections Kickoff on May 4. Join here: https://www.mobilize.us/azdems/event/455214/