How does the petition sponsor ensure that the format of the signature page will be proper?
The sponsor can assure proper format by posting a signature page on the web site in a locked Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). How does the sponsor fulfill the legal mandates that the signature page “contain” the full text or an approved summary of the proposal, and that if it contains a summary, the full text be available from the circulator? (ballot question petitions) The sponsor can post on the website in locked PDF the text or summary to be contained as part of the signature page. (If this is a summary, the sponsor must ensure that the full text is immediately available to all signers, on the website itself or through any circulator who downloads and circulates the signature page). Additionally, there must be instructions on the web site to inform people that they should print both the signature page and the text or summary and then staple them or copy them onto two sides of a single paper, and that they should sign and send in their signatures only if they meet the qualificat
