Posted by Jason Lewis on 3/29/06 1:54pm
Msg #109439

Question about notary and elections

Is anyone aware of any rules or situations involving notaries and political campaigns? The particular issue is someone being a campaign treasurer, also being a notary, and then notarizing documents for the campaign--such as the papers to get the candidate on the ballot in the first place, notarizing petitions for the campaign, basically being in the situation where they are treasurer for the campaign and also being asked to notarize the official filings the campaign makes with the state.

Reply by Jersey_Boy on 3/29/06 2:00pm
Msg #109444

JUST MY OPINION--- NOT LEGAL ADVICE.

I would think that as long as the notary/treasurer is not getting any personal fincancial gain from notarizing the documents (with exception to charging the statutory fee for the notarizations) then it would be ok.

Again just my opinion.

Reply by John_NorCal on 3/29/06 3:38pm
Msg #109472

I would think that if you don't want mud slung at you, that person should get some one at arms length. Why invite problems? That's just my opinion for the dollar 380 that it's worth.

Reply by SharonMN on 3/29/06 5:45pm
Msg #109512

Well, if you are the treasurer for a COMPANY, it's usually legal for you to notarize corporate documents. This seems like an equivalent situation and therefore allowed unless something in state notary law prohibits?