elections; petition
amendments
SB 1285 modifies the procedures and requirements for filing referendum, initiative and recall petitions.
§ Requires the county recorder to provide a list of registered voters in the county and their birth dates, not just birth year, to the Secretary of State.
§ Stipulates that a challenge to any nomination paper or nomination petition does not automatically disqualify the nomination paper or petition. Instead, the actual residential address of the person must be verified with the voter registration form.
§ Requires candidate nomination papers and petitions to contain the candidate’s actual residence address or a description of the candidate’s place of residence beginning on January 1, 2003, except for a candidate for presidential elector, which contains a general effective date.
§ Requires nomination petitions to contain the actual residence address or description of the place of residence of each petition signor and the petition circulator beginning on January 1, 2003.
§ Changes a provision of law so that if an elector who is issued a replacement ballot votes more than once, only the first, rather than the last, ballot received is counted.
§ Stipulates that if a political committee makes expenditures to influence the results of a ballot proposition election, the name of the political committee contained in the statement of organization must contain the official serial number for the petition and a statement of support of or opposition to the ballot measure.
§ Makes any petition signatures gathered prior to filing a $500 threshold exemption statement void for a political committee for an initiative or referendum.
§ Removes a provision that requires a county recorder to certify names of individual petition signers who were disqualified by the county recorder other than those disqualified within the random sample to the Secretary of State.
§ Exempts recall petitions from the requirement that a designation for paid or volunteer circulator be noted on the petition.
§ Stipulates that the name of a candidate other than the name of the candidate being recalled in a recall election shall be placed on the ballot after filing a nomination petition signed by at least two percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for the office in the last election.
§ Requires recall nomination petition signers to be residents of the electoral district of the officer who the recall petition was filed against.
§ Makes technical and conforming changes.
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45th Legislature
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Second Regular Session 2 April
15, 2002
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