# Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation **525 U.S. 182 (1999).** The Supreme Court struck three Colorado restrictions on the people who carry initiative petitions: the requirement that a circulator be a registered voter, the requirement that a circulator wear a name badge, and parts of the state's compelled disclosure of circulator identities and pay. Petition circulation is "core political speech," and restrictions on who may do it are reviewed accordingly. The decision is the federal ceiling on stage 5 of [[How a Ballot Measure Gets on the Ballot]]. It is why the live fight over circulator rules is about residency, payment method and disclosure rather than voter registration, and why states defending such rules argue them as administrative integrity measures rather than as qualifications. It built on *Meyer v. Grant* (1988), which struck Colorado's ban on paying circulators at all. Compare [[Reclaim Idaho v. Denney]] and [[Eggers v. Evnen]], which concern the geographic distribution of signatures rather than the circulator.