Kent Bernbeck Stan Dobrovolny Richard Bellino Angela L. Crouse Gwen Kutschkau, Betty Cowart v. Scott A. Moore

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• holding that a circulator registration requirement violated the First Amendment when the trial court had found, based on undisputed evidence, that the number of individuals that petition organizers could find “was grossly insufficient to the task” (quotation marks omitted
• holding that voter registration requirement violated First Amendment
• applying strict scrutiny where regulation, in effect, substantially inhibited individuals' ability to engage in \core political speech\
• “We reject the Secretary of State’s attempt to distinguish Meyer with the argument that the registered-voter requirement does not regulate ‘political speech,’ but rather the ‘process’ of conducting an initiative election, thereby raising no First Amendment concerns.”

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