Printing a blank nomination petitions

Once you have your filled in nomination petition (top portion) ready for circulation it's time to print copies.  Two simple ways to accomplish this:  print at your home or office using a inkjet or laser printer, or take it to a copy shop such as UPS store or Staples.  Either way make sure you follow these "best practices".

Printing from home or office

Print directly from the PDF of your nomination petition.  DO NOT MAKE copies from a printed petition.  While this may be OK for county or city petitions, it is not acceptable for state legislature and statewide offices.  In our current political environment where there are also sorts of challenges to petitions be safe, don't do it.  Making copies from copies reduces the size of the printed area each time you do it.  Some jurisdictions use special scanning software to process signed petitions.  (Unlikely in Cochise County, but possible)  Have your printer settings set to actual size rather than size to fit to make sure they petition printed image is not reduced.

Be sure to print the back side of the petition on each petition.  If you have a duplexing printer you can choose "print both sides of the paper".  It is critical that the circulator of the petition has both sides of the petition when they circulate.

The best was to ensure this to it print the back side of each petition.  This way you don't lose the back side of the petition when it goes to the campaign for validation and filing.  The law requires that the circulator fill out and sign the back side of the petition before they turn it in for it to be valid.

If you do not have a duplexing printer you can feed the petitions back through and print the back side.  Test that first to make sure you get the image on correctly.

Using a commercial copy store

They will usually print to a high volume copying machine rather than directly to a printer.  Make sure you ask them not to copy from a copy, only your original and have their machine set to 100% or actual size.