Fighting Sioux petitioners make final push
February 6, 2012 at 1:59 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Supporters of UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname said Monday they believe they have enough signatures to force a statewide referendum on whether the school should keep it. Continue Reading
IF (and I emphasize IF) they get them, which I hope they don’t, we can all say goodbye to all of the great things athletics has done for The University of North Dakota, my beloved alma mater. It will have been a great ride, but UND will be greatly diminished. In one year, when all of the petition signers are wondering what happened to sports at UND, they can all meet somewhere with their shirts and jerseys , proudly wearing their logos, and contemplate the demise of the UND Athletic Department. I am still wondering in what venue(s) they intend to wear their regalia, because it will certainly not be a UND event………..there won’t be any games.
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grandforkian said: On February 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM Most of the signatures will be thrown out because they were gained illegally, petitions were left unattended and people were told to just sign them with no witnesses. There are witnesses to these shenanigans and they will testify to the AG about what they saw. They don’t have enough signatures valid or invalid, it’s all a big bluff.
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Reply ■ uvikingslost said: On February 4, 2012 at 1:00 PM 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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No the sanctions are not in effect because the name/log have been retired. UND has moved away from their use and will continue to do so. That means they are in compliance.
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Right, Flying Nurse. Stay in your cistern of denial and self-righteous, PC effrontery. Perhaps “smart” people should be offended by better things than an innocuous nickname and logo. “Concern” over a nickname only bespeaks of manifest cognitive oblivion suffered by those so “concerned.” So far, at least 15,000 people are “smarter” than that.
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Steve,
I reiterate what I said earlier, I was hoping that the signatures would not materialize, but I have said all along you would get enough signatures for the referendum, the effort will be wasted because the original law you are trying to reinstate will be declared unconstitutional (your lawyer thinks it is), and you will fail in your attempt to put the nickname and logo in the constitution.
This whole ugly ordeal has at least a year to go, but in the end the nickname and logo will stay retired.
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While there may be enough signatures to fill those petitions, I wouldn’t be so sure there are enough legitimate signatures. In Fargo at West Acres, I know of at least two Moorhead High School kids who signed the petition for laughs. No one keeping track of who was signing. They aren’t even old enough to vote. Guess this shows how fast and loose some people are playing with this issue and hoping to sneak a few by the secretary of state.
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Yawn. Who cares. Make it all go away.
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It’s a NoDak thing….we Minnesotans are used to their obscurities.
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Forum Communications goes to bed every night praying that the fight over the cartoon and the ACS labor dispute goes on forever. What else would everyone have to talk about? If both of these issues disappeared tomorrow hits on the website would drop by 50%.
I mean seriously, what else is going on? How much reporting can be done off of minor injury traffic accidents and north/south school disagreements.
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flyingnurse: This is more about our entertainment than the future of Forumcommunications. This issue is going much too slowly for me. I’m going to quit watching for a couple of weeks. I have some old potatoes sprouting downstairs. I’m going to watch them for a while. See you after President’s Day. By the way, you poked the bear with your 10:13 comment. I thought we had a moratorium on that.
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You are correct. My bad. I will behave.
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pollos?
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