Criminal background checks for ballot petition canvassers

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Reagan, Robert Timothy, author

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Ballot measures were disqualified because their sponsors did not certify that ballot petition canvassers had passed criminal back-ground checks. A federal complaint alleged that the disqualificatio...

Ballot measures were disqualified because their sponsors did not certify that ballot petition canvassers had passed criminal back-ground checks. A federal complaint alleged that the disqualification was improper because background checks did not have grades of pass or fail. The federal district court judge denied the plaintiffs relief on res judicata grounds; a similar claim already had failed in the state's supreme court.

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