Petition-circulating companies are allowed to pay workers incentives, but can't pay on a per-signature basis, the Arizona Supreme Court rules. The issue is important for ballot initiatives.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Petition-circulating companies are allowed to pay workers a bonus based on how good they are at gathering signatures, without violating state law, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. But they can't pay on a per-signature basis.
Initiative successes in ArizonaInitiatives provide an avenue for Arizona voters to craft their own measures that lawmakers won't enact. "This is so good for Arizona because they were really close to wiping this industry off the map in Arizona,'' Chavez said of the ruling. He noted that Brnovich brought 50 individual criminal charges against his firm, which could have resulted in a $5 million fine.
Charges brought against companyAll this became an issue when Petition Partners was hired to put Proposition 208 on the 2020 ballot. The judges brushed aside claims by Brnovich that the law is needed to reduce the possibility of fraud in gathering petition signatures. Appellate Court Judge Michael Brown cited already existing laws against forgery and bans against signing a petition for profit.
Bolick said it applies only to a fee-per-signature compensation, and not to anything else that might provide an incentive to circulators. That limited restriction does not infringe on First Amendment rights, he said.
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