What is necessary to satisfy the requirement that the signer include the date of signing?
The signer must provide the full month, day and year of signing. Unless the signer has asked for help in entering the information, the circulator or sponsor should NOT fill in all or any part of the date signing. Ditto marks should not be used. If the full date of signing has not been provided by the signer or at the signer’s specific request, the signature will be invalidated unless the local board is able to determine with reasonable certainty from information on the face of the signature page that the date of signing must have been within the time frame required by law. Election officials will not consider the date of the circulator’s signature as evidence of the date of signers’ signatures, nor will it look beyond the face of the signature page to determine the date of signing.
