psdgraphics.comThe next batch of numbers is in, and things are looking good

Published 7:00 am Friday, August 7, 2009

psdgraphics.comThe next batch of numbers is in, and things are looking good for the expanded domestic partnership law. The Secretary of State reports that the R-71 petitions–i.e. the petitions to block the new law–showed an even higher error rate yesterday: Of the nearly 4,000 signatures checked, about 15% were invalid. This brings the overall error rate up to 13.54% with about 20% of the signatures checked. The measure can’t make the ballot with an error rate any higher than 12.42%. And the duplicate rate continues to show signs of growth: About 14% of the signatures that have been checked thus far were checked yesterday, but they turned up 24% of the duplicates. The Secretary of State now has two shifts of signature checkers working, so there’ll be another update coming this morning from last night’s late count. It’s a bull market on bad signatures!