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Arizona Early Voting, Ballot Collection, and Conflict-of-Interest Initiative (2020)
| Arizona Early Voting, Ballot Collection, and Conflict-of-Interest Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Voting policy measures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Arizona Early Voting, Ballot Collection, and Conflict-of-Interest Initiative was not on the ballot in Arizona as an initiated state statute on November 3, 2020.
The ballot initiative would have made several changes to state statute, including:[1]
- prohibiting state legislators from sponsoring or voting on bills, resolutions, or amendments that have a direct and substantial conflict with the financial interests of the legislator or the legislator's relatives, with exceptions for bills related to appropriations, taxes, and public employee compensation and reimbursement;
- allowing in-person early voting through the Sunday before Election Day;
- allowing persons to collect early voting ballots, with a voter's consent, for delivery to an elections official;
- changing the ballot initiative circulator registration form from requiring the circulator's residential address to an address at which communications can be served to the circulator;
- changing the requirement that a circulator presents an affidavit signed before a notary to a declaration without being signed before a notary; and
- requiring that there needs to be a good faith basis to subpoena a petition circulator.
The ballot initiative would have defined direct and substantial conflict with the financial interests as financial interests "that will not be shared by the public generally or by a significant segment of the public in a similar manner." The definition would have excluded financial benefits associated with the ownership of less than 3 percent of a corporation's share, provided that the dividends from that ownership do not exceed five percent of the total income of the legislator or legislator's relative.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the ballot initiative is available for here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Arizona
In Arizona, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast for the office of governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Petitions can be circulated for up to 24 months. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear.
The requirements to get initiated state statutes certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 237,645 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 2, 2020.
If the secretary of state certifies that enough valid signatures were submitted, the initiative is put on the next general election ballot. The secretary of state verifies the signatures through a random sampling of 5 percent of submitted signatures working in collaboration with county recorders. If the random sampling indicates that valid signatures equal to between 95 percent and 105 percent of the required number were submitted, a full check of all signatures is required. If the random sampling shows fewer signatures, the petition fails. If the random sampling shows more, the initiative is certified for the ballot.
Stages of this ballot initiative
The committee Arizonans for Accountability filed the ballot initiative (I-30-2020) on February 12, 2020. An earlier version (I-21-2020) was filed on September 17, 2019, but was withdrawn.[1]
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