Citizens in Charge

Friday is the final day for registered voters to sign initiatives and the day for ballot measure sponsors to turn in their petitions to county election officials. Then county election administrators have until July 16 to verify the signatures and turn them in, along with the totals, to Secretary of State Linda McCulloch. To qualify an initiative to amend a state law for the ballot, backers need the signatures of 5 percent of the state’s registered voters, or 24,377 signatures, including 5 percent of the voters in 34 of the 100 state House districts.