Nickname supporters make final push
February 2, 2012 at 1:44 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Petitioners set up shop at West Acres Mall, Capitol, pool tournament
A leader of the petition drive to restore UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname through a statewide vote said Thursday that “we’re in striking distance” of the 13,500 signatures needed by Tuesday’s filing deadline. Continue Reading
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GATHERING SIGNATURES
AMOUNT REQUIRED: Petition signature requirements are based on the percentage of the resident
population of the state of North Dakota at the last federal decennial census. According to 2010 census
figures, the population of North Dakota was 672,591.
Therefore, the percentages and signature requirements are as follows:
Referral Petition 2% of 672,591 13,452
Statutory Initiative 2% of 672,591 13,452
Constitutional Initiative 4% of 672,591 26,904
Past petition sponsors have gathered several hundred to several thousand additional signatures beyond
the required amounts to ensure that the signature requirement will be met after invalid and/or duplicate
signatures are rejected during the review process.
WHO CAN CIRCULATE AND SIGN PETITIONS: Petition circulators and signers must be qualified
voters of the area affected by the petition. Petition circulators may begin gathering signatures after the
petition has been approved by the Secretary of State. Petition circulators must be qualified North
Dakota voters and must sign an affidavit attached at the end of the petition (see pages 14, 19 and 22 for
examples of Circulator Affidavits) affirming those persons who signed the petition did so in the presence
of the circulator and to the best of the circulator’s knowledge, each person who signed the petition is a
qualified North Dakota voter.
Although petition circulators may be accompanied by others who may not be qualified voters of the
state of North Dakota, petitions must remain in the physical possession of circulators who are qualified
North Dakota voters.
Caution: Sponsoring committee members may not notarize a circulator’s affidavit. Doing so
will disqualify all the signatures on that single petition copy.
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