Arizona Supreme Court ruling hailed as a ‘huge win’ for petition gathering efforts in state (Arizona Republic)

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    Ryan Humble, with the company AZ Petition Partners, transports boxes containing some of the 435,669 signatures for the InvestInEd ballot initiative at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on July 2, 2020.

    Arizona Supreme Court ruling hailed as a ‘huge win’ for petition gathering efforts in state – By Mary Jo Pitzl (Arizona Republic) / June 22, 2023

    An Arizona Supreme Court ruling affirming that paying petition passers per signature they collect is illegal is nonetheless receiving praise as a “huge win” for petition-gathering efforts.

    The unanimous ruling Wednesday clarified that petition firms can use other forms of compensation, as long as they are not based on a per-signature basis, and rejected arguments that the law on its face violates the First Amendment.

    That adds up to a “huge win,” said Andrew Chavez, owner of Petition Partners, a prominent signature-gathering firm that was key to the case at the heart of the high court’s ruling.

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