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34-1807 - CIRCULATION OF PETITIONS -- VERIFICATION OF PETITION AND SIGNATURE SHEETS -- COMPARISON OF SIGNATURES WITH REGISTRATION OATHS AND RECORDS -- CERTAIN PETITIONS AND SIGNATURES VOID

CIRCULATION OF PETITIONS -- VERIFICATION OF PETITION AND
SIGNATURE SHEETS -- COMPARISON OF SIGNATURES WITH REGISTRATION OATHS AND
RECORDS -- CERTAIN PETITIONS AND SIGNATURES VOID. Any person who circulates
any petition for an initiative or referendum shall be a resident of the state
of Idaho and at least eighteen (18) years of age. Each and every sheet of
every such petition containing signatures shall be verified on the face
thereof in substantially the following form, by the person who circulated said
sheet of said petition, by his or her affidavit thereon, and as a part
thereof:
State of Idaho,
ss.
County of ....
I, ...., being first duly sworn, say: That I am a resident of the State of
Idaho and at least eighteen (18) years of age: that every person who signed
this sheet of the foregoing petition signed his or her name thereto in my
presence: I believe that each has stated his or her name, post-office address
and residence correctly, that each signer is a qualified elector of the State
of Idaho, and a resident of the county of ....
Signed....
Post-office address ....
Subscribed and sworn to before me this .... day of .........
(Notary Seal) Notary Public....
Residing at ....
In addition to said affidavit the county clerk shall carefully examine
said petitions and shall attach to the signature sheets a certificate to the
secretary of state substantially as follows:
State of Idaho
ss.
County of ....
To the honorable ...., Secretary of State for the State of Idaho: I, ....,
County Clerk of .... County, hereby certify that .... signatures on this
petition are those of qualified electors.
Signed ....
County Clerk or Deputy.
(Seal of office)
The county clerk shall deliver the petition or any part thereof to the
person from whom he received it with his certificate attached thereto as above
provided. The forms herein given are not mandatory and if substantially
followed in any petition, it shall be sufficient, disregarding clerical and
merely technical error.
Any petition upon which signatures are obtained by a person not a resident
of the state of Idaho and at least eighteen (18) years of age, shall be void.
The definition of resident in section 34-107, Idaho Code, shall apply to the
circulators of initiative and referendum petitions. In addition to (to) being
a resident, a petition circulator shall be at least eighteen (18) years of
age.

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