Voting Petitions in Your Political Campaign
All of your political campaign petitions have to be filled out by a certain date before voters cast their ballots in the election, which may be weeks or even months before the actual election day. Check your local filing date deadline. Late petitions are not accepted in any state.
After you get your political campaign petitions out to the circulators, you have to get them back on time. On time means, with enough time before the filing deadline for you to go over them carefully. You should check your own petitions with the same nitpicking zeal that the elections office will use.
If you find a mistake, it can be corrected. If they find a mistake, you are out and the voters will not have a chance to cast their ballot for you.
When you start getting your petitions back, you may find you have more than enough voter names on the petition. However, you may find that you have only near the minimum number, or that there is a problem with one of your campaign petitions.
If one of your petitions is invalidated, you may not get on the ballot. It is better to throw out the problem petition and get more names on a new one, which you know is done correctly. In order to be able to do this, of course, means that you have to plan to get the petitions out, signed and back and still leave yourself time enough to check and get even more names if you happen to need them.
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