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An Update On The AB 1266 Signature Drive Spot Check Count

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Quoting my anonymous peer activist friend whose helping me with the numbers: San Diego County is in and puts the pro-trans side in a better place than it found itself Friday. Only three counties to go: Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Nevada. I’m getting a feeling this may not make it from spot-checking to the full count. Duplicate signatures in spot-checking drive down validity rate dramatically. San Diego County had a whopping 4 duplicates in spot-checking, but this forced its validity rate down more than 5 percentage points over what it would have been with no duplicates. This does make one wonder what would have happened if a different 3% of signatures had been randomly checked, but, hey, the rules are the rules. Since I last updated the count (and it was a quite a while ago), approximately 5,000 votes have been added to the count from counties that previously

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“An Update On The AB 1266 Signature Drive Spot Check Count” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging law and civil rights. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “An Update On The AB 1266 Signature Drive Spot Check Count” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to law and civil rights. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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“An Update On The AB 1266 Signature Drive Spot Check Count” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for law and civil rights.

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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 89 inbound sources/citations