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  • California Elections Code
    • ELECTIONS CODE SECTION 6360-6365

6360.  Nomination papers properly prepared, circulated, signed and
verified shall be left, for examination, with the county elections
official of the county in which they are circulated, at least 74 days
prior to the presidential primary.


6361.  Each signer of a nomination paper may sign only one paper.
He or she shall declare his or her intention to support the candidate
for nomination, add his or her place of residence, and give his or
her street and number if any.


6362.  Any nomination paper may be presented in sections.  Each
section shall contain the names of the candidate.  Each section shall
bear the name of the county in which it is circulated.  Only voters
of the county registered as intending to affiliate with the political
party by which the nominations are to be made are competent to sign.




6363.  Each section shall be prepared with the lines for signatures
numbered, and shall have attached the affidavit of the circulator who
obtained signatures to it, stating that all the signatures to the
attached section were made in his or her presence, and that to the
best of his or her knowledge and belief each signature to the section
is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be.
  No other affidavit is required.  The affidavit of any circulator
shall be verified free of charge by any officer authorized to
administer oaths.


6364.  A verified nomination paper is prima facie evidence that the
signatures are genuine and that the persons signing it are voters,
until it is otherwise proved by comparison of the signatures with the
affidavits of registration in the office of the county elections
official.



6365.  The nomination paper for a candidate shall be in
substantially the following form:


            SECTION OF NOMINATION PAPER SIGNED BY VOTER ON
                         BEHALF OF CANDIDATE

                                Section ______________ Page _________


  County of ______.    Nomination paper for ______ as presidential
  nominee of the Republican Party.

  State of California     )
  County of __________    ) ss.

                         SIGNER'S STATEMENT

     I, the undersigned, am a voter of the County of ______, State
  of California, and am registered as intending to affiliate with
  the Republican Party.  I have not signed the nomination paper of
  any other candidates for the same office, and further declare
  that I intend to support the nomination of the candidate named
  herein at the Republican Party presidential primary to be held on
  the ____ day of ____, 20__.

  _________________________________________________________________
  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  Number       Signature      Printed name         Residence
  ---------------------------------------------------------------
   1.  __________________________________________________________
   2.  __________________________________________________________
   3.  __________________________________________________________
  etc. __________________________________________________________


                      CIRCULATOR'S AFFIDAVIT

     I, ____, solemnly swear (or affirm) that I secured signatures
  in the County of ____ to the nomination paper of the candidate
  named in the signer's statement above as candidate for nomination
  by the Republican Party at its presidential primary election; that
  all the signatures on this section of the nomination paper
  numbered from 1 to ____, inclusive, were made in my presence,
  that the signatures were obtained between ______, 20__ and ______,
  20__, and that to the best of my knowledge and belief each
  signature is the genuine signature of the person whose name it
  purports to be.
                                     (Signed) ______________________
                                                    Circulator

     Subscribed and sworn to before me this ______ day of _________,
  20__.
                               _____________________________________
     (SEAL)                      Notary Public (or other official)