Friday, August 29, 2008
Arizona Ballot Campaign on Affirmative Action Ends
A campaign to put an initiative on affirmative action on Arizona's Nov. 4 ballot is over. The Arizona Civil Rights Initiative campaign led by former California educator Ward Connerly announced Friday it was abandoning its lawsuit to overturn the state's decertification of Proposition 104. A judge late Thursday gave the Arizona initiative campaign until next Wednesday to finish its review of approximately 6,000 signatures rejected by Maricopa County. The campaign said that wasn't enough time because the county was letting it use only two voter-registration computers to check the signatures. An opponent of the Arizona initiative scoffed at the campaign's explanation for pulling the plug, saying that it failed to prepare for its lawsuit by checking the random samples of signatures while elections officials reviewed them during late July and early August.
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