Digital Signatures rejected in California

The judge in the electronic signature case has issued a tentative ruling, that digital signatures will not be permitted to help bring initiatives to the ballot.

"The digital image of a purportedly completed initiative petition stored on a USB flash drive does not constitute a petition or paper for purposes of determining what the elections office must process," Miram wrote in his tentative ruling.

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This is bad news for the Restore Equality 2010 campaign; without digital signatures, it's hard to see how we could collect enough signatures to get it onto the ballot.