(The "food for signatures" tactic is especially damning. - promoted by Robert in Monterey)
Original post at Daily Kos
Vikingkingq published an excellent diary here and Calitics on Wednesday and a follow-up on Thursday about this issue. I too ran into the same tactics he described at UCSB here in Orange County on Thursday afternoon.
It appears there was a statewide effort by the company collecting the signatures to hide what they were doing. Reports of this tactic have come from Davis, Santa Barbara, Berkeley and Orange County. The story that keeps coming out is that petitioners approached registered voter, made their pitch to get a signature for the children's cancer hospital initiative and then asked the voter to "sign multiple copies".
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