2008 ELECTIONS

Date of Election	February 9	March 8	July 19	September 6	October 4	November 4
Type of Election	Presidential Preference Primary and Minicipal Primary	Municipal General	Propositions Only	1st Party Primary	Open Primary/ 2nd Party Primary	Open General/ Presidential/ Congressional
Deadline: Specials	11/26/07	n/a	n/a	n/a	6/20/08	n/a
Deadline: Propositions	11/30/07	1/22/08	6/3/08	n/a	7/25/08	n/a
Qualifying Dates	12/12-14/08	n/a	n/a	7/9-11/08	7/9-11/08	n/a
Last Day to Register to Vote	1/9/08	2/6/08	6/18/08	8/6/08	9/3/08	10/6/08
Time Period to Request a Mail Ballot from Registrar (other than Military and Overseas)	12/11/07-2/5/08	1/8/08-3/4/08	5/20/08-7/15/08	7/8/08-9/2/08	8/5/08-9/30/08	9/5/08-10/31/08
Deadline for Registrar to Receive Voted Mail Ballot (other than Military and Overseas)	2/8/08	3/7/08	7/18/08	9/5/08	10/3/08	11/3/08
Early Voting Begins	1/26/08	2/23/08	7/5/08	8/23/08	9/20/08	10/21/08
Early Voting Ends	2/2/08	3/1/08	7/12/08	8/30/08	9/27/08	10/28/08

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PRESIDENTIAL QUALIFYING
2/9/08 Presidential Preference Primary: Democratic/Republican presidential nominees - Qualifying period 12/12/2007, ends 12/14/2007.
11/4/08 Presidential Election:

• Recognized political party candidates are certified to SOS by the state central committee prior to 5:00 p.m. on 9/2/2008. If not, properly certified by state central committee by the deadline, then national chairman of the Party certifies presidential candidates to SOS prior to 5:00 p.m. on 9/5/2008. (Recognized political parties includes: Democratic, Republican, Green, Libertarian, and Reform
• Other presidential candidates - Qualifying period begins 8/5/2008, ends 9/2/2008.

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