By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror
Since ending a brief hiatus caused by the coronavirus outbreak, campaigns for three ballot initiatives have ramped up their hiring of petition circulators over the past several weeks in preparation for their final drive for the November ballot.
Campaigns seeking to legalize recreational marijuana, loosen sentencing laws and raise income taxes on wealthier Arizonans to fund K-12 education scaled down their signature-gathering efforts in March as the state, like much of the rest of the country, largely shut down in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Since early April, however, the campaigns have been actively gathering signatures, and they’re hiring more petitioners every day. The expiration of Gov. Doug Ducey’s stay-at-home order and the end of the day today is likely to fuel their efforts as more businesses open and more people go out in public.
