Citizens Not Politicians Submitted More Than Enough Signatures
Late in the day on Wednesday, July 23, Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced that Citizens Not Politicians submitted 535,005 valid signatures in support of its proposed anti-gerrymandering amendment, with qualifying percentages from over 58 counties.
This easily exceeded the required minimum of 413,487 signatures, with qualifying percentages from 44 counties.
Earlier this month, CNP sent the Secretary of State many boxes of petitions with 735,000 signatures with signatures from all 88 counties in the state. We now know that 73.2% of those signatures were accepted by the local Boards of Elections as verifiable and unique -- an excellent record for a citizens petition drive.
Learn more about the facts and figures on the Citizens Not Politicians website, here.
The measure next goes to the Ohio Ballot Board, which will prepare summary language for the ballot and assign an issue number. This step will occur around August 23.
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