Ballotpedia:The BP Review/July 21, 2009/From the editor
| Issue 1, Volume 2: 7/21/2009 | From the Editor |
From the Editor
I thought I'd start my second "From The Editor" column with a little navel-gazing. My first edit on Ballotpedia was on July 26, 2007 on the Paul Jacob article. My second edit was on the Alaska 90-Day Legislative Session, Ballot Measure 1 (2006) article.
When BP started, Jacob had just been indicted by Drew Edmondson, the Oklahoma Attorney General, on the grounds that Jacob and the other two members of the Oklahoma 3 had violated Oklahoma's residency requirement. At the end of 2008, in the legal case Yes on Term Limits v. Savage, the Tenth Circuit ruled that Oklahoma's residency requirement was unconstitutional. All the charges were dropped.
As well as anything could, that sentence illuminates what motivates me to volunteer on BP. Ballot measures have their own life, which can often get very complicated. By sorting it all out here on a wiki, that allows information to grow, to change when circumstances change, and to be improved over time. This gives readers a fighting chance to really understand the interesting and important history of this part of our nation's democracy.
I've found this work to be very rewarding. Although BP has grown and improved immeasurably in the last two years, there's almost no end to the useful and illuminating work that editors old and new can contribute. I hope you'll think about joining the community of BP's writers--it's a wonderful feeling to know you're providing great information that people want.
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