Attorney General Opinion No. 1978-290

Download or read book Attorney General Opinion No. 1978-290 written by Curt Thomas Schneider and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sufficiency of a petition filed under K.S.A. 71-501 is to be determined by the county election officer, and not the clerk of the board of trustees of the community junior college with whom the petition is filed. So long as each petitioner personally executes his or her own signature, that signature is not invalid because some other person supplies the residence address and date of signing therefor. If it is shown that a circulator who has verified a petition document in fact signed the names of other persons on such petition document, the entire petition document may not be rejected, because other signatures thereon, as to which no showing of forgery or false signing has been made, may well be valid and entirely acceptable. All petition documents carried and verified by a single circulator may not be rejected merely because one or more signatures on one of the petition documents presented by that circulator are shown to have been false. Likewise, if it is shown that the circulator files petition documents and has verified all signatures thereon, but that certain of those petition documents were in fact left unattended in a public place, such a showing does not justify rejection of other petition documents verified by that same person as to which the signatures and verification thereon have not been impeached.