2017 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 32 - ELECTIONS
32-618 Nomination by petition; number of signatures required.
32-618. Nomination by petition; number of signatures required.
(1) The number of signatures of registered voters needed to place the name of a candidate upon the nonpartisan ballot for the general election shall be as follows:
(a) For each nonpartisan office other than members of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska and board members of a Class III school district, at least ten percent of the total number of registered voters voting for Governor or President of the United States at the immediately preceding general election in the district or political subdivision in which the officer is to be elected, not to exceed two thousand;
(b) For members of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, at least ten percent of the total number of registered voters voting for Governor or President of the United States at the immediately preceding general election in the regent district in which the officer is to be elected, not to exceed one thousand; and
(c) For board members of a Class III school district, at least twenty percent of the total number of votes cast for the board member receiving the highest number of votes at the immediately preceding general election in the school district.
(2) The number of signatures of registered voters needed to place the name of a candidate for an office upon the partisan ballot for the general election shall be at least ten percent of the registered voters entitled to vote for the office.
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Source
- Laws 1994, LB 76, § 186;
- Laws 1997, LB 764, § 62;
- Laws 2003, LB 181, § 5;
- Laws 2003, LB 461, § 3;
- Laws 2007, LB298, § 1;
- Laws 2011, LB399, § 1;
- Laws 2016, LB874, § 2.
Annotations
This section does not apply to nomination by petition of candidates for office of presidential elector. State ex rel. Beeson v. Marsh, 150 Neb. 233, 34 N.W.2d 279 (1948).
A candidate for the nomination for the office of Secretary of State who is defeated in the primary election is not eligible to be a candidate by petition for the office of Auditor of Public Accounts at the following general election. State ex rel. Driscoll v. Swanson, 127 Neb. 715, 256 N.W. 872 (1934).
This section sets out a method by which a candidate, not entitled to have his name placed on the primary ballot, may have his name placed on the general election ballot as a candidate by petition. State ex rel. Nelson v. Marsh, 123 Neb. 423, 243 N.W. 277 (1932).
This section applies to elections in general but is not applicable to elections under the nonpartisan judiciary act. State ex rel. Acton v. Penrod, 102 Neb. 734, 169 N.W. 266 (1918).
