It’s official! This week Secretary of State Debra Bowen certified NORA for the Nov. 4, 2008, ballot.

Click here for her press release [PDF download].

The Secretary of State found that NORA supporters had turned in 761,183 total voter signatures, with an overall requirement that 433,971 signatures had to be found valid.

To qualify on the expedited “random sample” process, NORA needed to have 477,369 “projected” valid signatures. Even before some counties had reported results, Ms. Bowen certified NORA when she had received reports of a total of 483,278 valid signatures. Final totals should be available in a few weeks.

Thanks to our signature-gathering teams, volunteers and, of course, the hundreds of thousands of Californians who said it’s time for change and helped put NORA on the ballot!