I was left with several questions after reading the article
”
DA recall organizers submit signatures
”
(Free Lance June 11-13).
Registrar John Hodges says his elections staff has 685 pages of
petitions to verify voters signatures. He should be concerned with
the signature line
”
circulator of petition.
”
Editor,
I was left with several questions after reading the article “DA recall organizers submit signatures” (Free Lance June 11-13).
Registrar John Hodges says his elections staff has 685 pages of petitions to verify voters signatures. He should be concerned with the signature line “circulator of petition.”
I stopped and looked at many of these petitions and asked each paid volunteer (what is a paid volunteer?) to show me the paragraph which states name of and signature of the circulator, county, circulator resides, start and finish dates the petition was circulated.
All of this information was blank when, in fact, that should have been the first paragraph completed before these petitions saturated the city.
Mr. Hodges, I’m willing to bet these petitions were signed by persons who weren’t the circulator, making them null and void. Why else would this section be left blank? Why would any voter sign a petition without that information being completed?
Mr. Hodges, your primary priority is not verifying the 685 pages of voter signatures but first verifying the legal circulator of each and every petition.
Noreen Martin, Hollister
