Government
Jun. 11, 2020
Suit says secretary of state delayed ballot initiatives
The complaint claims Secretary of State Alex Padilla has sent out notices to counties to sample signatures after 5 p.m. for four campaigns this year, delaying the process and endangering qualification for the ballot.
The real estate investor behind California's landmark online privacy law has sued Secretary of State Alex Padilla claiming an alleged delay to signature gathering could keep an initiative to strengthen the law off the November ballot.
Alastair Mactaggart, who is behind the initiative, had qualified a privacy initiative in 2018. But he dropped that effort as part of the negotiations that led to AB 375, the California Consumer Priv...
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