Title
Resolution to Order Election and to Determine Ballot Question for Charter Amendment to Modify the Method for Counting Signatures of Nomination Petitions (7 Votes Required, Roll Call Vote)
Staff
Prepared by: Matthew Thomas, Assistant City Attorney
Body
Whereas, Section 13.9 currently reads:
Circulation and Signing of Nomination Petitions
SECTION 13.9
(a) Signatures on a petition form shall be disregarded unless the form was circulated by a registered elector of the City or the ward, as the case may be, from which the candidate named thereon seeks election. Each petition form filed as a part of a nomination petition shall be verified by the person who circulated it. The verification shall state that the signatures on the petition form were obtained by the circulator thereof, were signed in the circulator's presence, and that the circulator has good reason to believe and does believe that each of the signers is a registered elector of the City or ward from which the candidate named on the petition form seeks to be elected.
(b) If any person signs a greater number of petitions for any office than there will be persons elected to that office, that person's signature shall be disregarded on all petitions for that office.
Whereas, November 3, 2026 is available as an Election Date;
RESOLVED, That the following amended charter provision be placed on the ballot and submitted to the voters at the November 3, 2026 election date:
Circulation and Signing of Nomination Petitions
SECTION 13.9
(a) Signatures on a petition form shall be disregarded unless the form was circulated by a registered elector of the City or the ward, as the case may be, from which the candidate named thereon seeks election. Each petition form filed as a part of a nomination petition shall be verified by the person who circulated it. The verification shall state that the signatures on the petition form were obtained by the circulator thereof, were signed in the circulator's presenc...
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