Barras: D.C.'s initiative mess

The admission was stunning. A D.C. Board of Elections lawyer said its staff had used a “confusing methodology” to evaluate qualifying petitions submitted by a citizens group hoping to get an initiative banning all corporate contributions on the November general election ballot.

The Washington Examiner’s Alan Blinder reported that Terri Stroud acknowledged “inconsistencies. Every person who reviewed [them] had a different way of noting whether a petition was correct or incorrect.”