On the By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) Web site, there’s a description of their tactics in Arizona during the next few days, before the petition is validated August 3:

“In just the past 6 weeks in Arizona, we have been blocking signature gatherers in 110-120 degree weather, exposing the ACRI’s voter fraud, getting circulators and leaders in the petition company to come forward and reveal election violations that they and others have committed around the ACRI. We have also filed a preemptive lawsuit that is a part of our petition challenge.”

             Their hope? To invalidate 5 percent of the 330,000 signatures submitted on July 3. (That’s 100,000 more than the required number).

           It’s sad, but unsurprising, that BAMN tried to block the very submission of the petition to the Secretary of State, and civil rights petitioners had to make special arrangements to drop off the signatures.

            And it’s telling BAMN so effortlessly moves to legal action and invalidation. While the Secretary of State’s office should check for bad signatures, BAMN methods prove they’re going to use any means necessary – and it seems even they might admit those means are shameless, unfair and illegal.