Posted by Shoshana/AZ on 2/8/13 6:13pm
Msg #454867

New Bill in AZ State House

The powers that be want signatures on all early ballots to be notarized. The bad part is that they want the notaries to do it for free!

Reply by MikeC/TX on 2/8/13 6:17pm
Msg #454869

Sometimes you have to wonder exactly what the thought process is on some of these bills...

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 2/8/13 6:39pm
Msg #454875

Absentee ballots no longer require notarization here

but it's in our statutes that we cannot charge a fee to notarize them. Nor can we charge a fee to notarize a veteran's paperwork relating to his application for benefits.

Reply by La Trese Breaux on 2/8/13 6:45pm
Msg #454877

Boooooo lol then we should get gas for free for driving right.

Reply by ikando on 2/9/13 9:08am
Msg #454959

In OK, can't charge for absentee/early ballot Notarization, but if I travel, I charge a travel fee. No conflict.

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 2/8/13 7:57pm
Msg #454899

So, is being really busy a good excuse for not

notarizing for free? Who's going to pay for my gas?

Reply by MikeC/TX on 2/8/13 9:15pm
Msg #454913

Re: So, is being really busy a good excuse for not

"Who's going to pay for my gas?"

Nobody -unless the law says otherwise, they have to come to you. And if you don't have an office, they need to find a notary who does.

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 2/8/13 11:04pm
Msg #454927

That works for me.

I am strictly mobile.

Reply by walthtz on 2/8/13 10:50pm
Msg #454925

That will be 1 VERY LONG line at the voting Booth.

Reply by Kathy Fletcher on 2/9/13 8:55am
Msg #454957

Re: Thanks Shoshana for letting AZ notaries know. KUDOS n/m

Reply by FormerEO on 2/9/13 1:07pm
Msg #454985

Sounds to me like just another impediment to be placed in the path of some voters to restrict their access to voting. It is an unfortunate scenario that is playing out in many Republican controlled state legislatures lately.

The more difficult they make it to vote, the fewer people will vote, whether it is in person or via early voting mail-in ballots. We should be making voting easier, not more difficult.

Reply by Darlin_AL on 2/9/13 3:00pm
Msg #454987

It's that way in AL, but the County Clerk who gave me the ballot offered to notarize it right there & chucked it in their vault. So, I didn't get mine by mail, I asked for it while I was at the Courthouse for something else--I was able to early vote too! Knowing this, I offered to notarize ballots at no fee to my friends & told my mailman if there were any shut-ins on his route, I would be glad to help them out. This is a lightly populated agricultural community: I'm not so busy I can't do some service.

Reply by GOLDGIRL/CA on 2/9/13 8:54pm
Msg #455021

Nice. Good for you, Darlin! n/m