See this report from the Salinas Californian, which begins: “After hearing complaints that backers of the general plan initiative violated voters’ rights, Monterey County supervisors Tuesday postponed deciding whether to place it on the June ballot. Supervisors, after certifying that 12,500 valid signatures had been collected for the ballot measure, opted instead to perform further studies of the initiative’s possible impacts on the county – and whether the measure can be thrown out altogether. A key issue is whether Spanish-speaking voters’ rights were violated because signature-gatherers presented ballot information solely in English.” See also this post on Flashreport. It is time for the Ninth Circuit to grant rehearing en banc in the Padilla case to clear up all this uncertainty.