June 09, 2010 01:02 AM UTC

Petitioning Candidates

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• by: Dan Willis

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10/9/10 UPDATE: Three more have been finished, all were sufficient:

Jane Norton

Joel Judd

David Casiano

This Friday is the deadline for the Secretary of State to certify the Primary Ballots. That means all candidates’ petitions will have to be verified by that time.

So far only one is done.

So I guess we can expect a flurry of announcements the rest of this week about who made the ballot and who didn’t.

Amber Tafoya (D-HD4) turned in her petition nearly a week before the deadline and has been deemed sufficient so she will be on the ballot.

We are still waiting for sufficiency (or insufficiency) statements for the following people:

(submitted 26 May):

Jane Norton (R-Sen)

Steven Barton (R-CD1)

David Casiano (R-HD44)

(submitted 27 May):

Joe Gschwenter (R-Gov)

Walker Stapleton (R-Treas)

Mark Hulbert (R-SD16)

Renee Blanchard (D-SD33)

Joel Judd (D-SD34)

Jennifer Coken (D-HD4)

Blake Harrison (D-HD7)

Mark Mehringer (D-HD7)

Raymond Keyawa (R-HD59)

Petitions have to be checked in the order they are submitted. I am not sure what order they were submitted except to say which day they came in on.

But, as you might imagine, the Norton, Gschwenter, and Stapleton petitions will likely take a while since each one probably has at least 20,000 signatures to go through. Random sampling is not used on candidate petitions.