Who screwed this up?

[Speedy]

Michigan Board Says Abortion Referendum Should Not Go to Voters

Abortion rights supporters gathered more than 750,000 signatures, but the petitions they circulated had formatting problems.

Pic of petition in link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/us/mi...5kxGCsu0Rw&smid=share-url

[Lemon Drop]

"Leave it to the voters in the states."

Unless the voters want abortion to be legal.

[Acer]

It's not pretty, but I can read it just fine.

[Tiangou]

It’s perfectly legible.

[Speedy]

It’s notwhetheraperson can read it orwhetheritislegible, it’s whetheryouwantsomethinglookinglikethat addedtoyourstate’sconstitution.

[mattkime]

They wanted to find a technicality and they did. Its BS.

[Acer]

Speedy wrote:
It’s notwhetheraperson can read it orwhetheritislegible, it’s whetheryouwantsomethinglookinglikethat addedtoyourstate’sconstitution.

I know you're being Speedy, but to argue with a strawman for a moment, they're not going to take snapshot of that document and plaster it on the constitution with wallpaper paste. If you took the wordprocessing document they used to make the petition, and formatted it plain text, the spaces are all there. Better yet, blow it up 200% and all the spaces are there.

[Speedy]

mattkime wrote:
They wanted to find a technicality and they did. Its BS.

Not really, not when it occurs repeatedly. A spacing error at the end of a line? Ok, that’s a technicality. They must have hired an antiabortion expert in Quark.

[August West]

Do the words "Poll Tax" ring any bells?

[mattkime]

Speedy wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
They wanted to find a technicality and they did. Its BS.

Not really, not when it occurs repeatedly. A spacing error at the end of a line? Ok, that’s a technicality. They must have hired an antiabortion expert in Quark.
I'm not saying that a mistake wasn't made. Did the mistake impact the intention of the of the petitioners? To me, it seems unlikely.