Stylitics has learned from high ranking elections officials this morning that there are significant issues pertaining to the method used to count signatures at the Maricopa County Elections Office. Thousands of signatures were tossed into the pool of invalid signatures with brief checks and no in-depth research. If the name that appeared in the "Print Name" column of the petition was not immediately legible then the signature was deemed invalid.
According to the TIME campaign co-chairman, David Martin, the legal team over at Perkins, Coie has a beat on at least enough signatures to achieve the 95% threshold (information from TIME campaign press release).
Other campaigns are taking deep breaths awaiting an official decision on TIME so they can go to their financial backers with at least some assurance their investments are safely invested in initiatives that will find this November's ballot.
TIME is not out of the woods on this yet, however. According to the same county elections source there may still be enough irregularities in petition signatures to confirm the decision made by Arizona Secretary of State, Jan Brewer.
The hacks are having a field day with this at this point. Depending on what happens there may be a few job openings for experienced political consultants...
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