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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 291
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(4) The requirements relating to the form of the petition have not been
satisfied;
(5) Based on the advice of the legal authority:
(i) The use of a petition for the subject matter of the petition is not
authorized by law; or
(ii) The petition seeks:
1. The enactment of a law that would be unconstitutional or
the election or nomination of an individual to an office for which that individual is not
legally qualified to be a candidate; or
2. A result that is otherwise prohibited by law; or
(6) The petition has failed to satisfy some other requirement established
by law.
(d) A determination under this section may not be inconsistent with an
advance determination made under § 6-202 of this subtitle.
(e) Notice of a determination under this section shall be provided in
accordance with § 6-210 of this subtitle.
REVISOR'S NOTE: This section formerly was Art. 33, § 6-206.
No changes are made.
6-207.
(a) Upon the filing of a petition, and unless it has been declared deficient
under § 6-206 of this subtitle, the staff of the election authority shall proceed to verify
the signatures and count the validated signatures contained in the petition.
(b) The State Board, by regulation, shall establish the process to be followed
by all election authorities for verifying and counting signatures on petitions.
(c) (1) The process established under subsection (b) of this section shall
provide for optional verification of a random sample of signatures contained in a
petition.
(2) Verification by random sample may only be used, with the approval
of the State Board:
(i) For a single-county petition containing more than 500
signatures; or
(ii) In the case of a multicounty petition, by a local board that
receives signature pages containing more than 500 signatures.
(3) Verification under this subsection shall require the random selection
and verification of 500 signatures or 5% of the total signatures on the petition,
whichever number is greater, to determine what percentage of the random sample is
composed of signatures that are authorized by law to be counted. That percentage
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