[EL] obscure question

[Richard Winger]

Today the Libertarian Party submitted 42,000 signatures to be on the ballot in Pennsylvania.  The Elections office immediately examined all the signatures and lined out all the signatures in which the signer had not put "2012" in the date column.  In other words, one-third of the signers (14,000) just put the month and day, but not the year.

However, the state-printed form says at the bottom "Revised Jan. 2012", and Pennsylvania law did not permit the petition to circulate until February 2012.

Does anyone happen to be aware of any precedents on whether signatures on petitions are invalid, just because the form asks for the date and the signer puts only the month and day but not the year?

Pennsylvania requires 20,601 valid signatures this year.

Richard Winger

415-922-9779

PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
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