Attorneys for the state say an initiative aimed at repealing Alaska’s ranked choice voting system still has sufficient signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
This is why initiatives in states that allow Citizens to add measures directly are always trying to get as many signatures as possible. Way more than they need.
I just went through training for collecting signatures here in AZ and entire sheets of signatures will be tossed out for one small issue in the info for the collector.
Write your collector ID poorly and it’s even slightly hard to read/verify? The entire sheet is tossed. The first person wrote their full address but their spouse just puts little “ditto” tallies? That isn’t a valid entry and is tossed. And probably everyone after them will do the same, so most of the sheet will be tossed. Information is written outside the boxes? Tossed. Didn’t check which county they are registered to vote and their entry is on a page for a different county? Tossed out. Signature doesn’t match what they did when they registered to vote 20 years ago? Tossed out.
A great usable percentage is 80%, but it’s more often near 40-50% once actually verified.
This is why initiatives in states that allow Citizens to add measures directly are always trying to get as many signatures as possible. Way more than they need.
I just went through training for collecting signatures here in AZ and entire sheets of signatures will be tossed out for one small issue in the info for the collector.
Write your collector ID poorly and it’s even slightly hard to read/verify? The entire sheet is tossed. The first person wrote their full address but their spouse just puts little “ditto” tallies? That isn’t a valid entry and is tossed. And probably everyone after them will do the same, so most of the sheet will be tossed. Information is written outside the boxes? Tossed. Didn’t check which county they are registered to vote and their entry is on a page for a different county? Tossed out. Signature doesn’t match what they did when they registered to vote 20 years ago? Tossed out.
A great usable percentage is 80%, but it’s more often near 40-50% once actually verified.