Petitioning for an Easier Referendum Law
Activists say it's easier to meet the state's standards for referendums than to petition a county law to the ballot.
A group of county activists wants to make it easier to petition county laws to the ballot and, ironically enough, the group's effort begins with a petition. Ann Miller, a Republican activist, is one of a number of volunteers who spent election day collecting signatures on a petition to change the Baltimore County Charter. If successful, the change to the County Charter would mean that voters seeking to challenge a law by referendum in the future would need to collect the signatures of less than 8,700 registered county voters to get an issue on the ballot. Miller and volunteers working with her are learning first-hand the difficulties in petitioning a county law to referendum as they attempt to collect enough signatures to overturn a …
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Chillin
9:19 am on Friday, April 6, 2012
@Brandon. Maybe "complacent" is a more appropriate word for these folks I'm referencing. The word "content" implies that they are aware of what's going on around them, and are quite happy about it. "Complacency" describes the emotion these lazy citizens feel when they have enough money to renew their $150 cell phone account for another month and enough to complete the dragon tattoo on their neck … more ›