[EL] Cal Ct App: "[U]se of an electronic signature to endorse an initiative petition is not contemplated by the [Cal.] Elections Code"

[Scarberry, Mark]

See Ni v. Slocum (6/30/2011).

http://www.metnews.com/sos.cgi?0711%2FA128721

"Proponents of a recent initiative to legalize marijuana, however, submitted to respondent Warren Slocum, the Chief Elections Officer of San Mateo County (the County), a digital memory device containing an electronic image of an initiative petition. The petition contained a single signature, that of Michael Ni (hereafter petitioner), which he had inscribed on the electronic image of the petition by tracing it on the screen of his smartphone. Using the same signature, petitioner had also executed the required declaration by the circulator of the petition, attesting to the genuineness of his signature."

Mark S. Scarberry
Pepperdine Univ. School of Law
Malibu, CA 90263
(310)506-4667