South Dakota Republicans use FONT SIZE to slow ballot petitions

[underpants]

From todays Dana Milbank column. I was unaware of this.

This is how far Republicans will go to subvert the will of the voters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/02/south-dakota-ballot-initiative-gop-subvert-voters/

Legislators enacted various obstacles to ballot initiatives, imposing new restrictions on topics and even the font size of petitions.

😳🤨 let’s follow the hyperlink on font to So. Dakota Public Broadcasting


Republican-Backed Bills Complicate Citizen Lawmaking
https://www.sdpb.org/blogs/politics-public-policy/republicanbacked-bills-complicate-citizen-lawmaking/

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In the lingo of South Dakota petition circulators, it’s called the “beach-towel effect.”

The Secretary of State’s Office says the full text of a petition and its signature lines must be contained on a single sheet of paper. For complex proposals, those single sheets of paper may grow to several feet wide and tall.

Now those sheets of paper might get even bigger. This winter, South Dakota’s Legislature passed a bill requiring the font size on petitions to be at least 14 points.

[2naSalit]

1. Again?

[underpants]

2. No I think this is the same move

The second link is from 2021. I’d missed this story.

[2naSalit]

3. As I hit the...

"post my reply" button I realized I was thinking of this ploy put to use in Michigan several years ago when Rs had taken over the legislature. Rachel warned us then that what we see now was coming if they weren't stopped back then. And here we are, it's happening in many states now.