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Committee hears proposals to decentralize signature verification and require notice when voters sign petitions
Summary
A bill sponsor told the Government Operations Interim Committee that returning petition signature verification to county clerks and notifying signers when their names will be posted would increase transparency.
Representative (presenter) told the committee the package of bills would ‘‘decentralize the signature verification process with the theme of my signature, my clerk.’’ The sponsor said decentralization would return verification of multi‑county candidate petition packets to the originating counties rather than centralizing tens of thousands of pages in a single office.
Under the draft discussed, petition packets would be county‑specific for paper filings (or routed electronically to the appropriate county for e‑petitions). The sponsor said each verified signature would trigger an email to the signer notifying them…
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