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Of the more than 46,000 signatures turned in, Jaeger's office said they could certify as valid only 17,265.

Jaeger wrote in a letter to measure chairman Jared Hendrix that his office rejected more than 29,000 of the roughly 46,000 petitions turned in by the group following a review by his office and the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation. The group needed 31,164 valid signatures to get the measure on the ballot.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A petition drive led by an ultraconservative group looking to place term limits on North Dakota lawmakers is riddled with violations and the proposal will not be placed on the November ballot, Secretary of State Al Jaeger said Tuesday.

Secretary of State Al Jaeger says more than 29,000 signatures were tossed, for a number of reasons

However popular the concept of term limits might be doesn't set aside what the law, up to and including our state constitution, requires of those who would use the initiated measure process. Nobody is above the law.

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Of the more than 46,000 signatures turned in, Jaeger's office said they could certify as valid only 17,265.

Jaeger wrote in a letter to measure chairman Jared Hendrix that his office rejected more than 29,000 of the roughly 46,000 petitions turned in by the group following a review by his office and the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation. The group needed 31,164 valid signatures to get the measure on the ballot.

"I got term limits on the ballot and guess what guys? BCI is doing an investigation on the term limits," one activist behind a constitutional amendment to implement term limits said during a Facebook live stream.