Amid the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing, groups whose measures are still standing are resorting to alternative means to get their petitions before voters.
"Some of these campaigns have been trying to get on the ballot for six years," Altic said."Waiting another two years is not pleasant for anyone, so there's a lot of pressure from campaigns to change or relax the rules."
The group claims the combination of restrictions on person-to-person contact because of COVID-19 and the large number of signatures required to meet the qualifying threshold have resulted"in an impossibly severe burden that effectively freezes access to the November ballot." "The current online efforts are going well, so we feel like once we're able to make person-to-person connections, we'll be able to get the signatures we need," Shelton said.
Christian Grose, the academic director of the University of Southern California's Schwarzenegger Institute, said that without independent commissions, legislatures"draw lines in ways that would help them; they are going to be more focused on protecting their own seats, or their own party, or both."Other groups are seeking to push the deadlines back for submitting their petitions.
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