Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Petition Circulator Testifies in Signature Fraud Trial
A ballot circulator took the stand Tuesday, affirming the Nebraskans United organization's allegations of National Ballot Access petition fraud. National Ballot Access circulated a petition to put an initiative banning affirmative action practices in the state on the Nov. 4 ballot. William Harlak was one of many who circulated petitions for National Ballot Access. He said Tuesday he signed most of his attestation clauses, which certify that he read the petition's object statement to signers, at home and was not in the presence of a notary. By law, the attestation clause must be signed in the notary's presence. "There were 10 to 15 people signing the oath at the same time in the Lincoln office," Harlak said. Everyone signed attestation clauses out of the notary's presence, he added. I led people to believe that this is a petition to stop preferential hiring when it actually hurts affirmative action groups," Harlak said.
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