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New hurdle for $12 minimum wage in Arizona
PHOENIX — A bid to get a public vote to hike the state’s minimum wage is now facing a new hurdle.
Election officials in Pima, Pinal and Yavapai counties have concluded that 276 names on petitions to put the issue on the November ballot cannot be verified.
That may not seem like much.
But the Secretary of State’s Office sends counties a random sample of petitions with just 5 percent of all names submitted. Those names then become a test of the full petition.
Read more: http://tucson.com/business/tucson/new-hurdle-for-minimum-wage-in-arizona/article_bb846e4f-0485-5e38-afe8-8acbecbd6cc6.html