Pillen, Evnen, county election officials call for changes to Nebraska petition circulator laws

By: Zach Wendling

Outlets: Nebraska Examiner

Published: September 3, 2026

Words: 1,677

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, Secretary of State Bob Evnen and multiple county election officials are calling for changes to petitioning in the state amid multiple investigations of possibly fraudulent signatures statewide.

Evnen said petitioners submitted about 767,000 signatures for review across 17 separate petitions this year. That includes 85,000 petition pages, each one of which can have no more than 20 signatures. The petitions included statewide ballot measures, …

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