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ten; i r-ii i CiTV B-18 July 15, 1978 The Arizona Republic Sears TEXTURED Court starts hearing on November-ballot spot for Libertarian Party COATING Many Time Thicker Than Paint Insulates Beautiftea Helps Givt Your Homt Years Of Lasting Beauty and Protection 12 Beautiful, Long Lasting Colon of them signed her party's petitions. Mrs. Stevens said she was therefore upset when she learned of the high percentage of names that were disqualified. On June 22, she said, 9.913 signatures were submitted. The remainder were submitted on July 8, one day before the filing deadline.

Because of the volume of signatures, County Recorder Tom Freestone said earlier that the task of checking the signatures wasn't completed by the 5 p.m. deadline last Friday. Because the signatures weren't verified by the deadline, the Libertarian Party could not file the petitions with the secretary of state to appear on the state ballot. James Bond, legal adviser to the county Judge Warren L. McCarthy at the hearing that the party should have been more diligent in getting the petitions in earli unregistered; and the remainder were found to be illegible, she said.

But the totals of those figures fell 145 short of the number of signatures submitted, she 'said. Under questioning by her attorney, Fred R. Esser, Mrs. Stevens said she and four other members of the Libertarian Party are deputy registrars. She said that she alone registered 4,000 voters' and that 90 to 95 per cent But, Mrs.

Stevens said she was told at the end of June that of 3,700 signatures checked in Maricopa County, only 33 per cent were valid. Mrs. Stevens said that of 15.431 signatures sub-' mitted by the party in Maricopa County, only 8,023 were verified. Signatures of 78 others were rejected because the signers lived in another county; 66 signers were determined to be too young; 5,542 were claimed to be had a "reasonable" chance of "making it (the ballot)." Nicol testified that it required a lot of time and effort to check the signatures and that it would be a waste of tax money if the parties didn't have a chance to get on the ballot. In arguments before McCarthy, Esser said the Libertarians need only 500 more signatures to get on the ballot.

The number of valid signatures to qualify for the ballot is 11,045. er so that they could have been verified by the deadline. But in her testimony, Mrs. Stevens said Nicol told her and representatives of other parties that he didn't want the petitions to dribble in in small amounts. Nicol testified1 that he urged Mrs.

Stevens and other party representatives not to submit small numbers of signatures but wait until they had enough to suggest they By APRIL DAIEN A hearing began Wednesday in Superior Court to determine wheth-r the Libertarian Party should be placed on the JSovember ballot. A special action request Jhat prompted the hearing contends that a number of county recorders throughout the state have "indis-'criminately" invalidated signatures on petitions intended to qualify the party for the ballot. The special action was Filed by Libertarian Party member Helen J. Stevens of 6 33 1 N. 83rd Scottsdale.

She testified Wednesday that in two hours, she validated 34 petition signatures which the Maricopa County recorder's office said were invalid because the signer's weren't registered voters. Mrs. Stevens said the percentage of signatures claimed to be invalid was much higher than she expected. She said that David J. Nicol, county elections director, had told her that normally 60 to 70 per cent of signatures on petitions are valid.

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