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Gay Marriage Challenged
May. 7th, 2009 03:55 pmI say piffle to all those naysayers. I don't think that they can get enough signatures for a veto... *hopes sincerely that the vetoers FAIL HARDCORE*
So, in order for the vetoers to be able to challenge the law, they have to collect enough signatures by some deadline to equal or exceed ten percent of the voters who turned up at the last gubernatorial election here. A. I have no clue how many people voted in the last election and B. I really think that would be letting a minority of people mess with the majority. I mean, that's not even ten percent of the population of the state, or ten percent of the registered voters. That's ten percent of the registered people who bothered to show up. Ten percent of an uncertain percentage? Not fair. They should have to get at least...thirty percent of the population total, instead. A reasonable number, not a fraction of a percentage.
And, yes, I know that getting the signatures doesn't automatically get rid of the law. It does, however, open up debate on whether we should keep it........but I honestly think that the naysayers already had their chance on that topic when the bill was being debated the first time around.
Augh. Politics. -_-
So, in order for the vetoers to be able to challenge the law, they have to collect enough signatures by some deadline to equal or exceed ten percent of the voters who turned up at the last gubernatorial election here. A. I have no clue how many people voted in the last election and B. I really think that would be letting a minority of people mess with the majority. I mean, that's not even ten percent of the population of the state, or ten percent of the registered voters. That's ten percent of the registered people who bothered to show up. Ten percent of an uncertain percentage? Not fair. They should have to get at least...thirty percent of the population total, instead. A reasonable number, not a fraction of a percentage.
And, yes, I know that getting the signatures doesn't automatically get rid of the law. It does, however, open up debate on whether we should keep it........but I honestly think that the naysayers already had their chance on that topic when the bill was being debated the first time around.
Augh. Politics. -_-
