Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports, Election law opponents move toward a referendum:
Critics of the state’s new election law today filed papers to create a political committee that will challenge the legislation through a referendum.
The new group, Protect Your Right to Vote, faces a daunting task: to gather 86,405 valid signatures by Sept. 12 to halt the law’s implementation until voters get the chance to weigh on it in the 2014 general election.
The group filed a referendum petition with the Secretary of State today.
The referendum committee is chaired by Julie Erfle, who writes for the blog site Politics Uncuffed and is the widow of a police officer killed in the line of duty.