Effective 28 Aug 1999
115.325. Form of petition — signing petition, voting for candidate or party not required. — 1. Each petition filed pursuant to sections 115.307 to 115.405 shall consist of pages of uniform size. The space for signatures on either side of a petition page shall be no larger than eight and one-half by fourteen inches, and each page shall contain signatures of registered voters from only one county. When submitted for filing, the pages of each petition shall be numbered in sequence for each county.
2. Each page of each petition for the formation of a new party shall be in substantially the following form:
If this form is followed substantially, it shall be sufficient, disregarding clerical and merely technical errors.
3. Each sheet of each petition for nomination of an independent candidate for public office shall be in substantially the following form:
If this form is followed substantially, it shall be sufficient, disregarding clerical and merely technical errors.
4. When any registered voter wishes to sign a petition for the formation of a new party or nomination of an independent candidate and is unable to sign his or her name, the required information shall be printed on the petition by the circulator of the petition page. The voter shall then sign the petition by making his or her mark, witnessed by the signature of the circulator. For purposes of this subchapter, all marks made and witnessed in accordance with this subsection shall be considered signatures.
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(L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 10.050, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1471, et al., A.L. 1993 S.B. 31, A.L. 1999 H.B. 676)
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