The undercutting of actual democracy in the USA is proceeding at a sobering clip, particularly where the initiative process is involved. Coyote, over at NW Republican, has experienced first-hand the Voter Education Project, an AFL-CIO offshoot that specializes in harassing signature drives. He doesn't delve into that particular set of fun and games, but provides some great insight in relation to a story published by The Wall Street Journal, to which he links.
This is highly recommended reading; you'll find that it very closely describes the sort of patterns we've all witnessed in Oregon.
