Secretary of State Brewer Concludes Candidate Filing for Statewide and Federal Offices

PHOENIX -- Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer today officially closed the month long window for candidates to file their nomination papers and petitions for the primary and general election in 2008. Federal and statewide candidates had until 5 p.m. today to submit the necessary paperwork to the Secretary of State in order to qualify for this year's ballot.

"This is truly a wonderful and exciting part of our democratic process here in Arizona, and I am very proud of my hard working staff for the yeoman like effort they put into processing these candidate petitions," stated Secretary Brewer. In all, we had over 237 candidates come in to file enough signatures to stand for office.

In addition, the Secretary announced that all four recognized statewide political parties filed their presidential elector's paperwork to be on the ballot representing their specific presidential candidate this November. Presidential hopeful Ralph Nader also filed over 50,000 petition signatures to qualify for the General Election ballot as a candidate with no designated party affiliation.

According to Arizona Statutes, any voter can file in court to challenge the nomination of a candidate no later than 5 p.m. ten business days after the last day to file nomination papers and petitions (which is June 18, 2008).

The deadline for Arizona citizen's to file initiative petitions to qualify the measure for this coming General Election is July 3, 2008.
To view an entire list of all candidates and the amount of signatures they collected, go to www.azsos.gov.

Congressional Candidates = 39
Corporation Commission Candidates = 12
State Senate Candidates = 56
State House of Representative Candidates = 130

*These numbers are unofficial. The final list of candidates will be posted on the SOS website by June 5, 2008.

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