Montgomery County Board of Elections Petition Update

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, July 24, 2024

For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 24, 2024

On June 21, 2024, and on July 12, 2024, the Montgomery County Board of Elections received two separate batches of petition signatures collected and submitted by the Committee for Better Government.

The petition is to amend the County Charter of Montgomery County, Maryland to bar any County Executive from serving more than two full or partial consecutive terms of office. 

On July 5, 2024, the Montgomery County Board of Elections completed validation of the first batch of 12,130 signatures and on July 24, 2024, completed validation of the second batch of 8,759 petition signatures.

The Board of Elections processed each submitted signature as per legal requirements and determined that:

• the Committee for Better Government  submitted a total of 20,889 petition signatures for validation
• 15,956 submitted petition signatures were validated and
• 4,933 submitted signatures were rejected.

The number of validated signatures exceeds the legally required 10,000 petition signatures to place the question on the 2024 Presidential General Election ballot. Therefore, the Election Director of the Montgomery County Board of Elections has issued a Notice of Petition Determination confirming that the Committee for Better Government successfully gathered a sufficient number of legally valid petition signatures.  Please follow this link County Executive Term Limits Petition - Notice Determination or visit www.777vote.org to read the full text. 

 

For election information, call 240-777-8500, visit www.777vote.org, the Maryland State Board of Elections website at www.elections.maryland.gov, or follow the Montgomery County Board of Elections on Facebook, Instagram, and X

Media Contact: Gilberto Zelaya 240-777-8625