Published on therepublic.com:
Petition drive led by Wyoming Constitution Party seeks to repeal school superintendents law
By Bob Moen, AP
May 28, 2012
CHEYENNE, Wyoming — Organizers of an effort to repeal changes to the state schools chief’s duties and powers turned in petition signatures to the Wyoming secretary of state’s office with just minutes to spare before the deadline Tuesday.
Petition organizer Jennifer Young, of Torrington, said she isn’t sure how many signatures were collected because of the rush to meet the deadline.
“We were collecting and people were bringing them in from all around the state until the very last minute,” Young said. “People were collecting up until the last moment possible.”
At last count about two weeks ago, about 20,000 signatures had been collected, she said.
Young and others delivered about a half dozen boxes stuffed with petitions just before 5 p.m. when the secretary of state’s office closed for the day.
The secretary of state’s office has 60 days to check to see if they collected 37,606 valid signatures in order to put a referendum on the 2014 general election ballot.
Young said Wyoming’s referendum process makes it difficult to succeed because of cumbersome requirements and a 90-day deadline. But she said she was encouraged by the number of signatures they were able to gather in a short period time — a time that included one of the snowiest Aprils in history in some areas of the state.
“It’s amazing even if there isn’t enough signatures when it’s said and done,” she said.
Young is a member of the Wyoming Constitution Party, which led the drive to repeal the new law that takes away many of the powers and duties of the state superintendent of public instruction.
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That would be something if they actually got over the required amount
According to Ballot Access News they did not.
Yeah, I read that. Though they did come close.
BAN said 21k, not sure if that is raw or valid. Requirement was 37k valid. If it was 21k raw, it may have only been about 10k valid.
Feel free to let us know
They won’t count how many valid because they did not even have enough raw.
They failed to make the ballot.
http://www.ballot-access.org/wyoming-referendum-sponsored-by-constitution-party-lacks-enough-signatures-to-qualify/
This was a valiant effort, but I’m not surprised that they failed given that they apparently did not hire any paid petitioners. If they had hired paid petitioners, it likely could have been the difference maker for getting this thing on the ballot.
It seems they only had maybe a quarter of the valid signatures required.