Butler v. City of Saint Paul, A18-0655
b'Appellant Peter Butler submitted a citizen-initiated petition, which contained over 7,600 signatures, to the Ramsey County Elections Office in support of a proposed amendment to the Saint Paul City Charter. After comparing the voter information on the petition to the voter information in the Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS), election officials determined that the petition did not contain the requisite number of signatures of registered voters in Saint Paul. See Minn. Stat. \\xa7 410.12 (2018).\\n\\nButler filed a petition in Ramsey County District Court under Minn. Stat. \\xa7 204B.44 (2018), which provides for the correction of \\u201cerrors, omissions, or wrongful acts\\u201d in election matters. Among other arguments, Butler claimed that election officials should have accepted the signatures and associated residence addresses on the charter-amendment petition at face value. The district court granted summary judgment to respondents City of Saint Paul, et al., and the court of appeals affirmed. The court of appeals held that \\u201ca signatory\\u2019s residence is presumptively determined by where the person is registered\\u201d for purposes of Minn. Stat. \\xa7 410.12.\\n\\nOn appeal to the supreme court, the following issues are presented: (1) when determining if a charter-amendment \\u201cpetition is signed by a sufficient number of voters\\u201d under Minn. Stat. \\xa7 410.12, subd. 3, whether a signatory\\u2019s residence in the local government unit is determined by the place of residence recited on the face of the petition or the place of residence listed in the SVRS; and (2) whether a genuine dispute of material fact exists when a signatory identifies his or her residence on the face of the petition as being in the local government unit, but the SVRS lists a registration address outside of the local government unit. (Ramsey County)'