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Verifying Petitions
100

No petition shall contain the name of more than one person for the same office except for who?

Joint candidates (President/vice president and governor/ lieutenant governor)
100

All candidates for nominations to be made at any primary election shall be placed on the primary election ballot by which two methods?

Certificate of designation or by petition

100

No person shall be placed in nomination by petition on behalf of any political party unless the person was affiliated with the political party no later than what day?

First business day of January. **Some political party bylaws actually make it earlier than this day.
100

Adams County originally stretched for how many miles?

160 miles *Present-day Sheridan Boulevard to the Kansas state border.
100
Each individual petition entry is checked against the information contained in this system?

SCORE

200

What is in bold-faced type at the top of each petition page?

Warning

200

No person is eligible to be a candidate for more than one office at one time, except for?

Candidate or member of the board of directors of any special district or districts in which they are an eligible elector.
200
A presidential primary shall be held when?

Tuesday designated by the governor

200

The County is named for?

Alva Adams, an early governor of the state of CO

200

If the address is missing an apartment letter or number or a street direction, the entry is?

Accepted

300

For petitions to nominate candidates from a major political party in a partisan election, each signer must be affiliated with the major political party named in the petition for at least how many days?

29

300
At an assembly, if no candidate receives thirty percent of more of the votes of the delegates, what must happen?
A second ballot must be cast on all the candidates for office.
300
The petition to qualify as a minor political party shall be signed by at least how many electors?

10,000

300

How many other counties border Adams County?

7

300
What happens if the date of the notary clause differs from the date on the circulator signed affidavit?
The entire section is rejected.
400

Who is the one person that can't assist an elector who is physically unable to sign the petition?

Circulator

400

At an assembly, if a candidate receives less than ten percent of the votes cast by delegates, how can they still gain access to the ballot?

They can't gain access.

400
If a person wishes to be a write-in candidate, what shall the file?
An affidavit of Intent. *Form can be found on the SOS website.
400

Adams County was featured as what in the South Park episode "Stanley's Cup.

Rival of South Park's peewee hockey team

400

If the signer completed the entry after the date on the circulator affidavit, the entry is?

Rejected
500

Each petition section must include what?

A signed, notarized, and dated affidavit executed by the person who circulated the petition section.

500
For a county office, what is the most amount of signatures that a candidate would be required to gather?

1000 *They are always encouraged to gather more because of rejected entries.

500
If a vacancy for school district director nomination is filled with a replacement candidate after the ballots are printed, what happens to the votes cast for the candidate who vacated the nomination?

They are votes counted for the replacement candidate.

500

Name one of the four coding license plates used by Adams County until 1999?

TE-UF, GA-GG, SAA-SEW, and SEY-TZZ
500

If on a candidate petition the address provided did not match the current residence address information in SCORE but did match the current mailing address information in SCORE, the entry is?

Accepted