PHOENIX - Whether a voucher reform measure heads to voters could turn on whether a judge finds certain petition circulators legally competent and qualified to collect signatures.
In a bid to block Proposition 212 and its attempt to rein in voucher enrollment, spending and stockpiling, opponents argue the voter initiative failed in some cases to use qualified petition circulators and, coupled with other signature deficiencies, fell short of the requirements to qualify for the ballot.
But proponents claim that most of the circulators at issue legally collected signatures and that, if the court decides otherwise, it could invalidate the signatures of large numbers of otherwise valid voters.
