{"id":459,"date":"2006-07-14T23:30:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2006-07-25T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T22:52:00","slug":"what-the-state-statute-requires-of-petition-signers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"What the State Statute requires of petition signers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I can find\u00c2\u00a0no requirement in\u00c2\u00a0state statute for signers to write the year of their birth on a candidate filing petitions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>204B.07 Nominating petitions. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Subd. 4.\u00c2\u00a0 <strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Oath and address of signer.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Following the information required by subdivisions 1 and 2 and before the space for signing, each separate page that is part of the petition shall include an oath in the following form:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I know the contents and purpose of this petition, that I do not intend to vote at the primary election for the office for which this nominating petition is made, and that I signed this petition of my own free will.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Notarization or certification of the signatures on a nominating petition is not required.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Immediately after the signature, the signer shall write on the petition the signer&#8217;s residence address including street and number, if any, and mailing address if different from residence address.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Furthermore, when my petitions were given a quick perusal after I handed them over I was shown a list of things the Secretary of State demanded be on the petitions. I was not\u00c2\u00a0given this list a few weeks\u00c2\u00a0earlier when I was given the petition form by the office staff. In fact, when I was first given the petition form I was specificly warned to read the law before making up my petitions and not rely on the sample petition I was given. Well, the law&#8217;s language is clear. There is no mention of collecting a signer&#8217;s year of birth. If I have heat stroke this weekend I will blame the Secretary of State who seems to believe that it is her job to police the polls and candidates as though she were Dick Cheney. I&#8217;ll\u00c2\u00a0 bet she&#8217;d like a national identity card. Maybe she issued a signing statement when the petition law was passed saying what the law meant.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can find\u00c2\u00a0no requirement in\u00c2\u00a0state statute for signers to write the year of their birth on a candidate filing petitions: 204B.07 Nominating petitions. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}