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QUALIFICATIONS OF DELEGATES -- NOMINATING PETITIONS --
DECLARATIONS OF CANDIDATES AND SIGNERS -- CERTIFICATION. Candidates for the
office of delegate to the convention shall be qualified electors of the state
of Idaho. Nomination shall be by petition and not otherwise. A single petition
shall nominate but one candidate, who may have one or more separate petitions.
Nominations shall be without party or political designation, but the
nominating petitions shall each contain a declaration of the candidate that he
is a candidate for election to the office of delegate to the constitutional
convention, and a statement to the effect that he favors ratification of, or
that he is against ratification of the proposed constitutional amendment to be
acted upon by the constitutional convention, and the total number of voters
joining in the nomination of a candidate shall not be less than one hundred
(100).
The candidate's declaration in the nominating petition shall be in
substantially the following form, to-wit:
I, the undersigned, being a qualified elector of .... precinct, ....
County, State of Idaho, hereby declare myself to be a candidate for the office
of delegate to the constitutional convention, to be voted for at the election
to be held on the .... day of ...., 19.., and that I .... (insert one only of
the following: "favor ratification of" .... or "am against ratification of")
the proposed constitutional amendment to be acted upon by the constitutional
convention, and certify that I possess the legal qualifications to fill said
office, and that my post-office address is .....
I further certify and declare that if nominated I hereby accept said
office.
(Signed) .....................
All blank spaces shall be properly filled in with the necessary
information and the declaration of candidacy shall be subscribed and sworn to
before an officer authorized to administer oaths, and the signatures of the
voters joining in such petitions, each of which signatures shall be followed
by the signer's residence address and date, shall be prefaced by a declaration
in substantially the following form, to-wit:
I, the undersigned, being a qualified elector of the State of Idaho, do
hereby declare that I am in accord with the statement and declaration of ....,
a candidate for the office of delegate to the constitutional convention, to be
voted for at the election to be held on the .... day of ...., 19.., and do
hereby join in this petition for his nomination for such office.

Name of Petitioner Post office Date of Signing
.................... ............... ....................
Each nominating petition shall, at the time of filing in the office of the
secretary of state, bear an affidavit in substantially the following form,
executed and verified by a citizen and resident of the State of Idaho:--
State of Idaho
ss.
County of ....
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen and resident of the
State of Idaho; that each of the petitioners whose name is affixed to the
above paper signed the same personally, together with his postoffice address
and date of signing, and that each signed the same with full knowledge of its
contents; that to the best of my knowledge each is a qualified elector of the
State of Idaho.
(Signed) .....................
Subscribed and sworn to before me this .... day of ...., 19...
..............................
Notary Public for the State of
Idaho; residence .............
No voter shall sign more than twenty-one (21) nominating petitions nor
more than one petition for the same candidate, and if he does either, his
signatures shall not be counted on any nominating petition.
All acceptances and petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state
not less than forty-five (45) days before the date fixed for the election. No
nomination shall be effective except those of the twenty-one (21) candidates
in favor of ratification and the twenty-one (21) candidates against
ratification whose nominating petitions have respectively been signed by the
largest number of voters, ties, if any, to be decided by lot drawn by the
secretary of state; provided, however, that if there be less than twenty-one
(21) candidates in favor of ratification, all such candidates shall be
considered as nominated, or if there be less than twenty-one (21) candidates
against ratification all such candidates shall be considered as nominated.
Within ten (10) days after the petitions are filed with him, the secretary
of state shall certify to each county auditor within the state, a certified
list of the candidates of each group entitled to be voted for at such
election, as appears from the acceptances and nominating petitions filed in
the office of the secretary of state.

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