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The Grand Canyon Institute (GCI) has submitted a \u2018friend of the court\u2019 brief<\/a> to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a lawsuit filed by ballot initiatives wanting to gather petition signatures online rather than sending petition circulators door to door.<\/p>\n

GCI conducted a statistical analysis of confirmed daily cases of COVID-19 in Arizona\u00a0to demonstrate that requiring ballot initiatives to gather signatures in person\u00a0could result in the exponential growth of the coronavirus<\/b>. Currently, the state’s online E-Qual website used for gathering signatures is reserved for candidates only and its use is prohibited by ballot initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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