Minot Daily News.

“The bill, drafted at the request of N.D. Secretary of State Al Jaeger, is an obvious reaction to last year’s incident involving 10 members of the North Dakota State University football team. The players pleaded guilty to faking signatures and were sentenced to community service and probation.

But the damage inflicted by last year’s fraud went much further than those convicted. Because so many signatures were invalidated, two petitions failed to make it on the November ballot.”