Allison began the VCL SALDF's involvement in this issue by having members go out into their communities and collect
voter signatures in an effort to help meet the required numbers needed to have the initiate placed on the ballot.
Now Stringer is also trying to turn Spitzer's candidacy (which could very well be short lived, unless he manages to collect a sufficient number of
valid voter signatures by Thursday) as a fund - raising tool.
If it passes muster, supporters must gather 64,750
voter signatures by Dec. 2 to proceed to the next stage.
The measure was cleared by the Secretary of State's office on Wednesday for circulation, meaning supporters have until Sept. 21 to collect some 366,000 valid
voter signatures needed to qualify it for the ballot.
Candidates for the Democratic nomination for attorney general can be nominated at state party committee meetings over the next month or file petitions
with voter signatures in June to get on the ballot.
He
submitted voter signatures to the Board of Elections that turned out to be bogus and pleaded guilty to making false witness statements on petitions.
Bronx DA Robert Johnson is presently pursuing criminal charges against the three Arroyo petition - gatherers who collected the petitions with
forged voter signatures.
Even then, some groups with a stake in the races are already preparing to
challenge voter signatures in court, just as they challenged signatures on nominating petitions.
Liberal Party organizers endorsed Catsimatidis» Republican candidacy for mayor last year, and he promised to provide funding to help
gather voter signatures to qualify it to reappear on the statewide ballot this fall, party sources said.
Under election law alterations are to be initialed and dated, typically where they occur and on the first signature line of the petition to indicate that the alterations occurred prior to the
first voter signature.
A Texas justice of the peace has pleaded guilty to a charge of tampering with government records after he was accused of
faking voter signatures to get on the ballot.
The group's measure was cleared in March by the Secretary of State's office for circulation, meaning supporters have until Sept. 21 to collect some 366,000 valid
voter signatures needed to qualify it for the ballot.
To get on the ballot, the former mayor would have to gather 79,939
valid voter signatures in Texas by May 9 from people who had not voted in either the March 1 Democratic or Republican primaries.
Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer said last night he had gathered 27,000
voter signatures in his bid to run for city comptroller.
Petitions, or
voter signatures of support, have to be filed with the Board of Elections office by the end of the day.
One claim followed a newspaper report that two of
the voter signatures collected to help get Suozzi on the ballot are from people who had already died.
She says she filed 22,000
voter signatures with the board of elections to get on the ballot.
Supporters have until mid-April to collect the needed
voter signatures.
This application will require over 430,000
voter signatures to make the ballot, but hopefully the effects of cancelling the affiliates program have generated enough outrage that the citizens will take a stand with Amazon against what it feels is a punitive violation of current sales tax legislation.