Hart v. Secretary of State

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• holding that article IV of the Maine Constitution, requiring circulators to be residents of Maine, is constitutional
• concluding that Maine’s residency requirement did not violate the constitutional right to free speech
• concluding that Maine's residency requirement did not violate the constitutional right to free speech
• noting that the purpose of the residency requirement is to make circulators easier to locate “if there is a question as to the validity of the signatures collected”
• noting that the purpose of the residency requirement is to make circulators easier to locate \if there is a question as to the validity of the signatures collected\
• holding that Maine’s residency requirement survives strict scrutiny

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).