The county auditor Tuesday announced a sampling showed that 63.2 percent of signatures were deemed valid in the petition effort for a countywide fracking ban, which also includes barring all oil activities in rural designations.
Clerk-Auditor-Recorder Joe Paul Gonzalez at a public hearing Tuesday said the elections office conducted its sampling of ballots. Of the 500 signatures sampled, 316 were valid, he said. That amounts to 63.2 percent of the 500 sampled.
That percentage exceeds the necessary number to move the petition forward. When calculated, that proportion of sampled signatures collected must exceed 110 percent of the minimum number of total signatures required – about 1,600.
County supervisors Tuesday voted 4-1 to send the group’s petition to the November ballot.Â
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