Last night I got an automated call to my home phone in Sunnyvale asking me to sign a petition to get a parental notification proposition on the ballot again. It asked me to press 1 if I wanted to sign and 2 if I did not. I pressed 2. It told me they would not contact me again. I don't know what would have happened if I had pressed 1 - whether that would count as my signature, whether they would mail a form to my house to sign, or whether they would direct me to a place or website to sign. I went and did a googlesearch to see if I could find more information about this and this is the only article that came up:
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/...
I guess the thinking is that since Prop 73 went down during a strange special election by a not very large margin (47.2% approved the measure) that putting it on in November will give it a better shot. I really hope not. I guess it's time to get out my checkbook and donate to Planned Parenthood so they can fight this.
Anyway, this is also the first time I got an automated political call like that. It kinda bugs me a little. I mean, sure, canvassing by hand is hard but that's the way democracy should work, IMO. The idea that someone can just set an automatic calling machine running and come back to find a couple of thousand signatures kindof creeps me out.
The article is a couple of weeks old so apologies if this has already been diaried but I did do a search and I couldn't find any.