ELECTION INFO: SECRETARY OF STATE
Phone: (602) 542-8683
Email: elections@azsos.gov
STATE-ISTICS: STATE INFORMATION

Getting on the Ballot for 2012

Sign Up to be an Elector We need a total of 10 electors in Arizona
Download Petition Here Start collecting signatures Immediately Read the instructions on the document.
Signatures Needed: at least three percent (3%) of voters statewide (about 67,000)
Other Information: Each page of said petitions must contain the names of registered voters from a single county.
Filing Deadline: 180 days before the primary election.

Recognized party qualifications:

Received not less than 5% of the total votes cast for
governor or presidential electors in the last general
election [16-804]
Or has registered electors in the party equal to at
least 2/3 of 1% of the total registered electors by
November 1 of the year immediately preceding the
election [16-244]

New party qualifications:

Petition: not less than 1 and 1/3% of all votes cast
for governor or presidential elector in the last
general election [16-801]
Deadline: file between 140 and 180 days before the
primary [16-244]

Presidential Preference Election ballot access:

File a nomination paper with the Secretary of State
[16-242]
Deadline: file between 50 and 70 days before the
Presidential Preference Election [16-242]

General ballot access for unrecognized party and independent candidates:

File a nomination paper with the Secretary of State
[16-311]
Petition: 3% of voters statewide (in 2004, this was approximately 66,875 signatures) [16-341]
Deadline: file between 90 and 120 days before the
general election [16-341 & 16-311]
Last day to withdraw from the ballot: no statute

Presidential Preference Election date:

fourth Tuesday in February [16-241a]
Participation: Closed primary

Voter registration:

29 days before the election

Sources:
Arizona State Legislature (January 1, 2009). Arizona Revised Statues: Title 16- Elections and Electors. Retrieved January 15, 2009, from http://www.azleg.state.az.us/ArizonaRevisedStatutes.asp?Title=16

The Reform Institute (December 2003). Presidential Ballot Access: State by State Scorecard. Retrieved November 10, 2008, from https://www.policyarchive.org/bitstream/handle/10207/5646/2003scorecard..... pg 15 of 69

Write-In Information

The candidate must submit the following to the Secretary of State's Election Office:

1) A Nomination Paper / Affidavit of Qualification for the presidential candidate.

2) A Nomination Paper / Affidavit of Qualification for the vice-presidential candidate.

3) A Write-In Candidate Presidential Elector Nomination Paper / Affidavit of Qualification for each of 10 electors who must be residents of the state of Arizona.

4) A cover sheet on which the presidential candidate designates in writing that he is running for President, who his vice-presidential running mate is, and the names of the 10 presidential electors that are pledged to him. This cover sheet should also reference that the nomination papers for the presidential candidate, the vice-presidential candidate and each of the 10 electors are enclosed.

Here is an official information sheet from the Arizona Secretary of State's Election Office.

ALL NOMINATION PAPERS MUST BE NOTARIZED

The deadline is September 25, 2008 5:00 PM

Mary C. Fontes
Election Office Manager
Arizona Secretary of State
1700 W. Washington Street, 7th Floor
Phoenix, Arizona 85007-2888
Source:
Frank Moore (May 8, 2008). US Presidential Write-In Candidate Requirements For Each State. Retrieved November 10, 2008, from http://www.writein2008.blogspot.com/