SB 1285
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-sixth Legislature
Second Regular Session
Senate: ELEC DP 7-0-1-0 | 3
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Read: 29-0-1-0
SB 1285: local candidates; petitions; electronic signatures
Sponsor: Senator Hoffman, LD 15
Committee on Municipal Oversight & Elections
Overview
Allows a candidate to collect up to 110% of the minimum required number of nomination
petition signatures through E-Qual.
History
Statute requires candidates to submit a minimum number of nomination petition signatures
to the appropriate filing officer at least 120 days before the election. A candidate for county
precinct committeeman, for instance, must obtain a minimum of 2% of the party registration
in their precinct, or 10 signatures, whichever is less (A.R.S. §§ 16-314, 16-322).
Laws 2014, Chapter 45 directed the Secretary of State to establish a system to allow voters
to sign nomination petitions for statewide and legislative candidates through a secure online
portal. The Secretary of State subsequently implemented the E-Qual system. In 2016, the
legislature passed a law that expanded, beginning in 2017, the use of E-Qual to allow
candidates for local offices to collect up to the minimum number of required nomination
petition signatures through the secure internet portal (A.R.S. § 16-317).
Provisions
1. Increases the number of nomination petition signatures a candidate may collect through
the online signature collection system from the minimum required number of signatures
to up to 110% of the minimum number of required signatures. (Sec. 1)
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note