As the campaign behind a ballot measure to implement term limits in North Dakota argues in court that their signatures are valid, one of the petitioners they hired to gather those signatures just saw petitions in support of his independent candidacy for secretary of state tossed.
As the campaign behind a ballot measure to implement term limits in North Dakota argues in court that their signatures are valid, one of the petitioners they hired to gather those signatures just saw petitions in support of his independent candidacy for secretary of state tossed.
(Bismarck, ND) Past statewide candidate Charles Tuttle is making an independent bid for North Dakota Secretary of State. Tuttle said Wednesday that he had submitted just over the one-thousand signatures needed to make the November ballot. If the signatures are certified, Tuttle will face Republican Michael Howe and Democrat Jeffrey Powell. Current Secretary of State Al
Charles Tuttle, who oversaw the collection of signatures for the ND Term Limits Initiative, claims the investigation is a smear campaign. But petition circulators said they received between $50 and $100 bonuses for every 100 signatures they collected, according to a search warrant.
Secretary of State Al Jaeger announced in March that a proposed measure to set term limits on state legislators and governors would not appear on the November ballot after thousands of signatures failed to meet legal standards.