R71 update: Lawsuit, updated count and PDC decision

Yesterday, the Public Disclosure Commission held their regular meeting. On the agenda: Whether names of people who donated to Referendum 71 should be a public record. Donors to political campaigns are a public record, but R71 backers wanted to be exempt. The PDC disagreed, so the names will continue to be a public record.

Now, for the count: More than 125,000 signatures have been counted, and Nick Handy of the Elections Division predicts they’ll be done counting by Sept. 1. R71 supporters have nearly 111,000 valid signatures, of the 120,577 needed.

Remember when Secretary of State Sam Reed predicted a lawsuit? Well, he was right.

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