The Right to Petition in Arizona

This is an interesting editorial below from Laurie Roberts in the Arizona Republic with regards to members of the Arizona State Legislature attempting to reform the mechanisms that enable petitions to get the required signatures necessary to qualify to get onto the ballot. These reforms are designed to make the process harder and jeopardize the democratic process the people who first designed the state government of Arizona wanted.

Even if the legislature succeeds and this legislation passes, people should meet the challenge. The party apparatus of one of our greatest political parties has fallen under the spell of a strange combination of right-wing xenophobic racist populism and crony monopolistic capitalists. People need to pay attention, get involved (that includes voting) and call our leaders to account when they are supporting measures that do not move the state forward in a positive direction.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2017/02/16/robertssos-30-arizona-you-just-took-hit/98003188/