Lemons v. Bradbury

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Bush Court limited its ruling “to the present circumstances” of Florida’s 2000 recount
• stating that “[l]ike other evenhanded restrictions that protect the integrity and reliability of the electoral process itself, the state’s signature verification procedures must be upheld” (citations omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted)
• addressing a claim that Oregon lacked sufficiently uniform signature verification rules under Bush v. Gore
• stating that, “[t]o date, the Supreme Court has subjected only two types of voting regulations to strict scrutiny”: those that “unreasonably deprive” some persons of the right to vote, and those that “contravene the principle of one person, one vote” (citation omitted
• signature verification procedure for voting in referenda was minimal burden despite possibility of erroneous rejections of signatures
• “[T]hey argue 20 that the method of verifying referendum signatures burdens their fundamental right to 21 vote.”

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