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Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller has certified that proponents of a Michael Bloomberg-backed 2016 ballot measure on “background checks” have submitted the required number of signatures The Washington Times reported Monday. The assessment comes after a grassroots group opposing the initiative, Nevadans for State Gun Rights, submitted evidence of numerous irregularities and rules violations.
Miller’s December 8 notice of sufficiency to Nevada County Clerks and Registrars of Voters noted receipt of their certificates of results. Based on a tally of “valid signatures” in the state’s four petition districts, he declared “the background check initiative petition sufficient.”
A November 25 letter to Miller signed by Nevadans for State Gun Rights President Don Turner contained three requests for invalidation. The first noted petitions delivered after the required submission date. The second pointed out the lack of required affidavits for each page of signatures submitted, and that it specified the wrong county. The third showed an example of an affidavit signed and dated before all the signatures appearing on it had been obtained.
“There’s plenty of time to challenge the certification,” Turner noted in response to Miller’s decision. “We’re probably going to end up in court.”
The group behind the ballot measure, Nevadans for Background Checks, has been revealed by the state’s registered business site to be an entity established by Bloomberg’s Everytown team, with the same players as were behind the recent billionaire-backed ballot measure in Washington. Gun rights advocate warnings that the outside special interest-financed group is using bait and switch on voters to engineer an incremental gain toward further controls are bolstered by a summary report on gun violence prevention strategies in which Greg Ridgeway, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Justice, concluded “Effectiveness [of background checks] depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gun registration...”
That Bloomberg modus operandi is further confirmed by a Thursday Seattle Times analysis. Backers of the Washington measure are “buoyed” by its passage, the report noted, adding “backers of stricter gun laws will press state lawmakers for additional measures...”
“We have worked to challenge Bloomberg's ballot initiative at every turn, and now we need your help,” Nevadans for State Gun Rights pleaded in an appeal to gun owners for support. “It is going to take all of us working together to stop this thing. We need to raise funds for our legal challenges and to make sure every Nevadans hears from us before they cast their votes in 2016.”
With the effort getting underway, the gun rights advocacy group has established itself with an internet presence to share information, which in turn can be shared by supportive activists. The main website gives a background on reasons behind their efforts, includes downloadable flyers for explaining facts and spreading the word, and provides for online donations by grassroots activists to offset the massive flow of out-of-state money that Bloomberg will be pouring in. That site is supplemented with a Twitter feed, where the latest news and information will be posted for sharing.
http://www.examiner.com/article/nevada-accepts-bloomberg-gun-control-ballot-measure-despite-irregularities?CID=examiner_alerts_article
Miller’s December 8 notice of sufficiency to Nevada County Clerks and Registrars of Voters noted receipt of their certificates of results. Based on a tally of “valid signatures” in the state’s four petition districts, he declared “the background check initiative petition sufficient.”
A November 25 letter to Miller signed by Nevadans for State Gun Rights President Don Turner contained three requests for invalidation. The first noted petitions delivered after the required submission date. The second pointed out the lack of required affidavits for each page of signatures submitted, and that it specified the wrong county. The third showed an example of an affidavit signed and dated before all the signatures appearing on it had been obtained.
“There’s plenty of time to challenge the certification,” Turner noted in response to Miller’s decision. “We’re probably going to end up in court.”
The group behind the ballot measure, Nevadans for Background Checks, has been revealed by the state’s registered business site to be an entity established by Bloomberg’s Everytown team, with the same players as were behind the recent billionaire-backed ballot measure in Washington. Gun rights advocate warnings that the outside special interest-financed group is using bait and switch on voters to engineer an incremental gain toward further controls are bolstered by a summary report on gun violence prevention strategies in which Greg Ridgeway, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Justice, concluded “Effectiveness [of background checks] depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gun registration...”
That Bloomberg modus operandi is further confirmed by a Thursday Seattle Times analysis. Backers of the Washington measure are “buoyed” by its passage, the report noted, adding “backers of stricter gun laws will press state lawmakers for additional measures...”
“We have worked to challenge Bloomberg's ballot initiative at every turn, and now we need your help,” Nevadans for State Gun Rights pleaded in an appeal to gun owners for support. “It is going to take all of us working together to stop this thing. We need to raise funds for our legal challenges and to make sure every Nevadans hears from us before they cast their votes in 2016.”
With the effort getting underway, the gun rights advocacy group has established itself with an internet presence to share information, which in turn can be shared by supportive activists. The main website gives a background on reasons behind their efforts, includes downloadable flyers for explaining facts and spreading the word, and provides for online donations by grassroots activists to offset the massive flow of out-of-state money that Bloomberg will be pouring in. That site is supplemented with a Twitter feed, where the latest news and information will be posted for sharing.
http://www.examiner.com/article/nevada-accepts-bloomberg-gun-control-ballot-measure-despite-irregularities?CID=examiner_alerts_article
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