Arizona Voter ID, Absentee Ballot Notarization, and Hand-Counting Votes Initiative (2022)
| Arizona Voter ID, Absentee Ballot Notarization, and Hand-Counting Votes Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Voting policy measures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Arizona Voter ID, Absentee Ballot Notarization, and Hand-Counting Votes Initiative was not on the ballot in Arizona as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
The ballot measure would have required voting to happen in person at polling places, with an exception for absentee voting; required a notarized stamp for absentee ballots; prohibited mail-in voting that is not designated as absentee voting; required a government-issued photo identification card to vote in person; and required that all ballots are hand-counted without the use of electronic or computerized tabulation.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the ballot initiative is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Arizona
In Arizona, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 15 percent of votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Petitions can be circulated for up to 24 months. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear.
The requirements to get initiated constitutional amendments certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 356,467 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 7, 2022.
If the secretary of state certifies that enough valid signatures were submitted, the initiative is put on the next general election ballot. The secretary of state verifies the signatures through a random sampling of 5 percent of submitted signatures working in collaboration with county recorders. If the random sampling indicates that valid signatures equal to between 95 percent and 105 percent of the required number were submitted, a full check of all signatures is required. If the random sampling shows fewer signatures, the petition fails. If the random sampling shows more, the initiative is certified for the ballot.
Stages of this initiative
The organization Arizona Spartan Amendment Project filed the ballot initiative on February 2, 2021.[2]
See also
Footnotes
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