Archives for June 2009
Today, Citizens in Charge Foundation, a transpartisan national voter rights group focused on the ballot initiative and referendum process, presented Nevada State Senator Terry Care with the June 2009 John Lilburne Award. Senator Care is being recognized for standing up for the rights of Nevada voters and trying to stop legislation that would shut Nevadans out of the ballot initiative process.
Yesterday, Senator Care cast the only vote against Senate Bill 212 aimed at stifling the ballot initiative process.
A bill aimed at restricting citizen ballot initative use in Nevada passed the state Senate Sunday. Senate Bill 212 will require signatures to be collected in each of the state’s three congressional districts until 2011. The Legislature would then come up with some undefined “petition district” from which signatures would have to be collected.