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A federal judge has thrown out the county-by-county signature gathering requirement for initiative petitions, opening the door to California-style governance by petition.

Petition signature gatherers can now gather signatures in only one county for a petition that affects the entire state.  Before this ruling, signatures were required to be gathered in all 17 counties.

Jon Ralston and his omnipresence are back from vacation, and he already has the scoop on the Nevada State Education Association complaint filed late Friday with the Secretary of State. The complaint aims to disqualify the Sharon Angle-backed property tax initiative.

For the lazy:

The complaint centers around "(1) numerous intances where the circulator never executed the required affidavit; and (2) instances where the affidavit was executed improperly." The complaint cointinues on with specific examples of mistakes made in the signature gathering process, the specific Nevada law governing the signature gathering process, and Nevada Supreme Court cases on the subject for precedent.

Nevada Senate Minority Leader Dina TitusState Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus is a winner this week, but why are her fellow Senate Democrats losers, along with Ron Paul supporters?

Find out in our weekly Winners and Losers for May 9, 2008.

Anyone want to put odds on them getting the rural signatures?

I'm starting at 3 to 1 against.

Here's the link:

www.NoTaxGrab.com