On April 18, the South Dakota Secretary of State determined that the Constitution Party has enough valid signatures, so it is now a qualified party.
South Dakota now has five ballot-qualified parties: Americans Elect, Constitution, Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican. This is the most qualified parties in South Dakota since 1914.
Wow, I’m suprised that the Constitution Party made it in South Dakota. I heard that they only turned in 9,000 raw signatures which was not that much over the requirement, which I believe is 7,921. I know that South Dakota is a high validity state, probably around the 6th highest in the country by my estimation, but even so, this is still suprising if they only turned in 9,000 signatures. Does anyone know exactly how many signatures they turned in and what their validity rate was?
I think that the Constitution Party got its signatures by going to meetings of people where virtually everyone is registered to vote, such as church groups and tea party-type groups and gun rights groups. So I presume the party had higher validity rate than the normal petition drive on the streets.
How is the validity rate determined? If the SOS is only checking say 500 signatures, that might not be enough to determine the validity rate.
Great job CST of SD!
“Richard Winger Says:
April 19th, 2012 at 9:29 am
I think that the Constitution Party got its signatures by going to meetings of people where virtually everyone is registered to vote, such as church groups and tea party-type groups and gun rights groups. So I presume the party had higher validity rate than the normal petition drive on the streets.”
I know that the Constitution Party of South Dakota also had paid petitioners out on the streets gathering signatures the traditional way as well.
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