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May 30, 2006 08:00 AM UTC

Petition Results May be Slow in Coming

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  • by: Colorado Pols

There hasn’t been much word about which candidates turned in enough petitions to make the ballot, and as The Denver Post reports, the Secretary of State’s office has been swamped trying to catch up:

Secretary of State Gigi Dennis‘ election staff is so swamped with petitions from candidates hoping to make the November ballot that she’s hired 35 temporary staffers to help out. SOS spokeswoman Dana Williams said the staff planned to work through the Memorial Day weekend scrutinizing the 65,000 or so signatures.

While a congressional candidate needs just 1,000 signatures and a gubernatorial candidate needs 10,500, the candidates typically collect at least twice the required number in order to overcome any ineligibles. For initiative petitions, only a sampling of the required signatures are checked. For candidate petitions, Williams said, signatures have to be checked line by line.

Dennis has until June 9 to notify candidates of the results. People with questions about signatures can file protests and make their cases in formal hearings before then.

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5 thoughts on “Petition Results May be Slow in Coming”

  1. Swamped?  Like Gigi Dennis didn’t see this coming?  Gee, most readers here were well aware of the petition deadline, and could see a while ago that we’d have a lot of candidates going this route.

    Seriously, I’m sick of our Secretary of State making excuses every time she has to do her job.  It was the same with Donetta Davidson: “No one could have predicted that many voters…and what’s a provisional ballot again?”

    We need Ken Gordon as Secretary of State.  He won’t be making lame excuses.  He’ll get the job done.

  2. Even if she could see it coming, there is very little she can do about it until the petitions are actually turned in. Of course, Ken Gordon would probably have a early preview of the signatures coming from the cemetary. You know, the one’s the usually vote for the Dems.

  4. Here is the list of everyone who turned in petitions:

    CD5: Lionel Rivera (R) certified to ballot
    CD5: Bently Rayburn (R) certified to ballot
    CD5: John Anderson (R)
    CD5: Duncan Bremer (R)

    CD7: Herb Rubenstien (D)
    CD7: Peggy Lamm (D)

    Gov.: Marc Holtzman (R)

    SD9: Eric Singer (R)
    SD22: Kiki Traylor (R) certified to ballot
    SD22: Justin Everett (R)
    SD30: Mark Baisley (R)
    SD32: Chris Romer (D) certified to ballot

    HD1: Margaret Atencio (D)
    HD13: Jim Rettew (D)
    HD35: Jeffrey Vigil (D)
    HD37: Mick Davis (R)
    HD59: Jeffrey Deitch (D)

  5. Just read Dan Haley’s blog and saw that Jeff Vigil’s petitions were insufficient and that Jeff Deitch has been certified to the ballot.

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