[EL] obscure question

[Estelle Rogers]

I don't know about petition signatures specifically, but I can tell  
you that voter registration applications have been rejected en masse  
for similar technical and non-germane infirmities--e.g., filling it  
out in pencil.

Estelle H. Rogers, Esq.
Legislative Director
Project Vote
202-546-4173, ext. 310

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On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Richard Winger wrote:

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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