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BOWEN RENEWS INITIATIVE REFORM EFFORT

NEW MEASURE WOULD BAN PER-SIGNATURE PAYMENTS & REQUIRE INITIATIVE PETITION SIGNATURE GATHERERS TO REVEAL WHO IS FINANCING THE PROPOSAL

SACRAMENTO – Eliminating fraud in voter registration and initiative signature gathering efforts, as well as requiring people pushing initiatives to tell would-be petition signers who is financing the initiative effort are the goals of two bills unveiled today by Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach).

“Per-signature payments are an invitation to cheat and it doesn’t matter which party is writing the check,” said Bowen, the chairwoman of the Senate Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments Committee. “If people are getting paid $10 for every signature they get on an initiative petition or for every voter registration card they collect, they have an incentive to defraud the system in a way that a volunteer or someone making $10 an hour doesn’t.”