§ 131 Constitution of the Canton of Aargau, (1980) - Request for Optional Popular Voting
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§ 131 Constitution of the Canton of Aargau, (1980) - Request for Optional Popular Voting Until the enactment of legal provisions, the following provisions will apply regarding the right to request optional popular voting as referred to in § 63, para. 1 of this constitution: a. The referendum period is 90 days from the official publication of the legislative acts and decrees subject to the optional referendum. b. Support for the referendum request is expressed by individual signature on signature lists. c. Each signature list must include the designation of the legislative act or decree subject to the referendum with the date of its adoption by the Grand Council, the political municipality of the signatory having the right to vote, and the statement that anyone who falsifies the number of signatures collected in support of a referendum request is punishable (Art. 282 Criminal Code). d. The voter must legibly inscribe their name by hand on the signature list and provide all information necessary to verify their identity, such as first name, year of birth, and address. They may sign only once for the same referendum request. e. The signature lists must be sent in time before the expiration of the referendum period to the chancellery of the political municipality where the signatory has the right to vote. The municipal secretary certifies for free that the signatories are voters in the municipality and then promptly returns the lists to the senders. f. The certification must specify in letters or numbers the number of certified signatures; it must be dated, signed in person by the municipal secretary, and bear the stamp of the person issuing the certificate. g. Certification of voter status is refused if the conditions indicated in letters c and d of this paragraph are not met. The reason for the refusal is indicated on the signature list. If the voter has signed the request multiple times, only one of the signatures is certified. h. The referendum request must be submitted to the State Chancellery before the expiration of the referendum period. i. The State Chancellery may order the correction of defects affecting the certification before and after the expiration of the referendum period if the success of the referendum depends on it. k. Signatures that appear on lists not meeting the mentioned requirements or submitted after the expiration of the referendum period, as well as signatures given by persons whose voter status has not been certified or for which the certification is null or was wrongly granted, are void. 1. After the expiration of the referendum period, the State Council determines whether the referendum has validly succeeded and publishes the related decision in the Official Gazette of the Canton of Aargau, indicating the number of valid and void signatures.
§ 131 1980 — Request for Optional Popular Voting
Until the enactment of legal provisions, the following provisions will apply regarding the right to request optional popular voting as referred to in § 63, para. 1 of this constitution: a. The referendum period is 90 days from the official publication of the legislative acts and decrees subject to the optional referendum. b. Support for the referendum request is expressed by individual signature on signature lists. c. Each signature list must include the designation of the legislative act or decree subject to the referendum with the date of its adoption by the Grand Council, the political municipality of the signatory having the right to vote, and the statement that anyone who falsifies the number of signatures collected in support of a referendum request is punishable (Art. 282 Criminal Code). d. The voter must legibly inscribe their name by hand on the signature list and provide all information necessary to verify their identity, such as first name, year of birth, and address. They may sign only once for the same referendum request. e. The signature lists must be sent in time before the expiration of the referendum period to the chancellery of the political municipality where the signatory has the right to vote. The municipal secretary certifies for free that the signatories are voters in the municipality and then promptly returns the lists to the senders. f. The certification must specify in letters or numbers the number of certified signatures; it must be dated, signed in person by the municipal secretary, and bear the stamp of the person issuing the certificate. g. Certification of voter status is refused if the conditions indicated in letters c and d of this paragraph are not met. The reason for the refusal is indicated on the signature list. If the voter has signed the request multiple times, only one of the signatures is certified. h. The referendum request must be submitted to the State Chancellery before the expiration of the referendum period. i. The State Chancellery may order the correction of defects affecting the certification before and after the expiration of the referendum period if the success of the referendum depends on it. k. Signatures that appear on lists not meeting the mentioned requirements or submitted after the expiration of the referendum period, as well as signatures given by persons whose voter status has not been certified or for which the certification is null or was wrongly granted, are void. 1. After the expiration of the referendum period, the State Council determines whether the referendum has validly succeeded and publishes the related decision in the Official Gazette of the Canton of Aargau, indicating the number of valid and void signatures.