Part 4 — Board Powers and Elections Division 1 Board Powers
96.8 Counting petitioners
board and the secretary is responsible for determining if the recall
petition is sufficient.
(2) No name may be added to or removed from a recall petition
after it has been filed with the secretary.
(3) In counting the number of petitioners on a recall petition the
secretary must exclude the name of a person
(a) whose signature is not witnessed,
(b) whose signature is witnessed but for which no affidavit is
attached to the petition,
(c) whose signature appears on a page or form that does not
contain the notice of recall petition referred to in section
96.3(2),
(d) whose printed name is not included or is incorrect,
(e) whose street address or leg al description of land is not
included or is incorrect,
(f) if the date when the perso n signed the recall petition is not
stated,
(g) when a recall petition is res tricted to certain persons,
(i) who is not one of those persons, or
(ii) whose qualification as one of those persons is not, or is
incorrectly, described or set out,
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(h) who signed the recall petitio n after the expiry of the recall
petition signature period.
(4) If 5000 or more petitioners are necessary to make a petition
sufficient, a secretary may use a random statistical sampling
method with a 95% confidence level to determine the sufficiency
of the petition, instead of counting and checking each petitioner.
2021 cR-5.7 s70