Ballot Access
Petition Guidelines (for the 2012 Elections)
Thank you for volunteering
your time, energy and resources to help us gather signatures to get the
Constitution Party on ballots across the state. Someone once said, "If it's
worth doing, it's worth doing right." Because of the importance of what the
Constitution Party stands for, it is eminently important that those who work
for the Constitution Party do so with the utmost integrity.
Below are some guidelines
that will help us gather signatures with a high percentage of validity. Please
familiarize yourself with these guidelines, and let's do our best to save our
beloved country!
Forms
1. The
form must be an exact copy of the form distributed from the Secretary of
State's Office (counties use the same form).
b. Email
your county Chairman, and he will send you a .pdf file by email.
c. A
paper copy from your county Chairman, or some other volunteer of the CPAZ.
d. The
Secretary of State's office in downtown Phoenix or your local county elections
office.
3. If
you can afford it, please print out a copy to use as an original and make your
own copies, otherwise just request more copies.
4. If
making copies yourself, the following guidelines are a must.
a. Copies
must be identical, i.e., no shrinking, no enlarging.
b. They
must be clear and straight, not blurry or crooked.
c. The
margins must be the same as the original.
If these guidelines are not followed all
the signatures on the faulty forms will be rejected as invalid.
5. If
you print out the .pdf file, you must use legal size paper (8 ½ X 14). Be sure to use the following
settings on your printer.
a. Paper
size set to "Legal" (8½ x 14).
b. Orientation set to "Landscape".
c. Page
scaling set to "None".
Circulators
1. Only
registered voters may circulate petitions.
2. Those
circulating the petitions must fill out the blanks at the top of the front as
well as the back of the form.
a. front (the side with lines for 15 signers).
1) 1st blank: name of the County, e.g., "Pima,"
"Yavapai," etc., (only voters of the county indicated may sign that sheet).
2) 2nd blank: primary election date - "28th
day of August, 2012".
3) 3rd blank: general election date - "6th
day of November, 2012".
4) 4th blank: "Constitution Party of
Arizona".
b. back.
1) 1st blank: whoever is circulating the
sheet must print or type their name.
2) Write
the county in which you are registered to vote (Note: not the county in which
you intend to collect signatures, but the county in which you, the circulator,
are registered to vote).
3) Next
four blanks are self-explanatory.
3. VERY
IMPORTANT! Circulators must be
present when petition is signed, i.e., we may not leave them unattended for
others to come by and sign.
4. Turn
in all completed forms to your County Chairman. Call or email the County
Chairman to get mailing address.
Signers
1. Must
be registered to vote in the county designated at the top of the petition to
sign.
(You
may find it helpful to remind them to sign, print, record address and date to
avoid mistakes like signing where they're supposed to print, or vice versa. It
may also be helpful to remind them of the correct date.)
2. Their
address should match the address on their voter registration card.
(P.O. boxes may not be accepted. The
only acceptable entries for the address line are residential addresses,
description of property location or U.S. Post Offices.)
