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The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that a law which criminalized per-signature payments to petitioners is constitutional.The unanimous decision overturns a lower ruling and says that the 2017 law does not violate the First Amendment rights of petition circulators. Justice Clint Bolick wrote that the statute only forbids per-signature compensation, leaving productivity-based
Petition Partners, the state's largest signature gathering firm, was slapped with 50 misdemeanor criminal counts for its bonus programs that paid people for each signature collected for Proposition 208, a tax on incomes over $250,000.
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a law criminalizing per-signature payment is constitutional, possibly complicating efforts for groups trying to get initiatives on the ballot.
PHOENIX – Petition circulating companies are free to pay workers a bonus based on how good they are at gathering signatures without violating state law, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled
The issue is important to the kinds of ballot initiative drives that gave Arizona legalized use of recreational marijuana and a minimum wage higher than the nation's.