Term-limited State Senator Ernie Chambers won't be on the November ballot after all.
Chambers fell short of candidacy for the District 3 Douglas County Commissioner by 346 signatures.
According to a release, a revised statute outlines the process by which a nonpartisan voter may be a candidate for a partisan office through nomination by petition. The petition would need 2,000 verified signatures. There were 146 pages of signatures collected in support of Sen. Chambers on August 31 and a total of 2,499 lines were completed on the pages.
After a verification process, only 1,654 signatures were accepted. Chambers needed 2,000 in order to be a candidate. Of the 845 rejected signatures, the most common reasons for rejection were due to voters not being registered in district 3 or registered to vote in Douglas County.