Mussi v. Katie hobbs/adrc Action

Summary

The court affirmed the amended judgment disqualifying the initiative from the ballot because the statutory calculation produced 226,555 valid signatures, below the required 237,645. The court held that circulator-registration and individual-signature challenges must be incorporated into the statutory calculation, that county-recorders' invalidity rate is based on all invalid signatures in the random sample, and that the rate cannot be altered by restoring overlapping signatures or calculating category-specific rates. The court also resolved several preliminary circulator-registration issues, including requirements concerning service addresses and the effect of accepted registration applications.