2012 Ballot Access

Now that we have our Presidential nominee, we have to start to get her on as many ballots as we can. If we're aggressive, there's about 16 or 17 states we can do easily.

-Mississippi needs paperwork done by January 6th. If not, we can submit 1,000 signatures as an independent candidate by September 7th.
-Hawaii needs just under 700 signatures by February 22nd.
-New Mexico needs just over 3,000 signatures by April 2nd.
-Colorado needs $500 and a list of electors by June 4th.
-Vermont needs 1,000 signatures by June 14th.
-New Jersey needs 800 signatures by July 30th.
-Arkansas needs 1,000 signatures by August 1st.
-Utah needs 1,000 signatures by August 15th.
-Tennessee needs 275 signatures by August 16th.
-Iowa needs a public meeting with proof of 250 attendees by August 17th.
-New York needs 15,000 signatures by August 21st. This one's a little tougher, but it's a very populous state, and might be achievable.
-Washington needs 1,000 signatures by August 28th.
-Florida needs a list of party officials by September 1st. However, this law may be changing soon, so we may want to do it ASAP.
-Louisiana needs $500 and a list of electors by September 4th.
-Rhode Island needs 1,000 signatures by September 7th.
-Wisconsin needs 2,000 signatures by September 7th.
-Ohio needs a "modicum of support." Maybe a petition of 5,000 or so signatures will work. There's no deadline set, but probably by late July or early August.

I will have to leave it with those more experienced in how to get the signatures or doing the paperwork, but we have some time to get this done.

Here's to a strong showing in 2012!

Submitted by view-from-seats on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 10:44
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view-from-seats:

Has anyone been in touch with the Florida Pirate Party? According to Ballot Access News, they are one of fifteen qualified parties in Florida. I'm not sure if the Pirate Party is running their own candidates or not.

Here's the contact us link: http://fl.pirate.is/?page_id=17

01/13/2012 - 09:01
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inDglass:

Indiana requires 34,194 signatures by July 2nd.

01/02/2012 - 18:40
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Pierre-Alexandr...:

No entire clarity but Tiffany Briscoe told me she would fund the Colorado and Louisiana fees. When it comes to petition campaigning, the most of which should be done by the time the LP gets its own candidate, what is needed? Money-wise and staff-related...

12/24/2011 - 08:39
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paulie:

Petition prices vary, most places we are getting around 2 dollars a signature plus expenses on the street right now, plus some money to the petition contractors if it's a big enough job where we have to hire subcontractors.

You may need as much as 2 x the legal requirement to make sure there are enough valid signatures. Usually you can get away with somewhat less than that, say 1. 5 x.

If you want to talk specifics give me a call; 415-690-6352 if you are in the US. Travellingcircus at gmail dot com if you are in another country.

I prefer phone calls over emails.

12/25/2011 - 10:02
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inDglass:

Hawaii has the soonest deadline. 700 signatures by February 22nd, which really means 1,000 by 02/15. We need to find some people who Hawaii who would be willing to petition for Tiffany. Even if one is not a BTP member, I think they may be receptive to the issue platform on her web site.

12/24/2011 - 13:07
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southernpatriot:

Here's the list of States that I believe are "doable" - most are candidate only, the easier method in Hawai'i & Delaware would put a full party on the ballot. I believe both methods in Mississippi are doable.

Louisiana pay $500
Colorado pay $500
Tennessee 275
New Jersey 800
Hawaii 691 (full party)
Vermont 1,000
Utah 1,000
Idaho 1,000
Arkansas 1,000
Mississippi be organized (or) 1,000
Rhode Island 1,000
Washington 1,000
Delaware (register) 650 (full party)
Iowa 1,500
Minnesota 2,000
Wisconsin 2,000
Nebraska 2,500
New Hampshire 3,000

12/23/2011 - 20:00
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southernpatriot:

Additionally, even though Illinois requires a large number of signatures, all petitions are considered "valid" unless challenged.

12/23/2011 - 21:53
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paulie:

Yep, all those are doable.

However it takes some really gung ho volunteers to come up with even those numbers - and that is if they happen to live there, very few would travel to do this for free.

We got 2 of the 3 states in 2008 because Charles Jay paid me. Sp I guess we'll see what happens this time.

12/23/2011 - 22:50
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paulie:

415-690-8352 if anyone wants to fund ballot access.

Of the three states where BTP had ballot access last time, I had a lot to do with two of them: Signatures and electors in TN and voter regs and electors in FL.

12/23/2011 - 11:30
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joogle:

To all my friends who voted for my candidacy, Princess Joy, Phred, William, others whose names I don't know for sure, all the other candidates, and participants I'd like to say thanks for giving me the free speech time and the votes, and I look forward to working with the Boston Tea Party, all parties, independents, voters and non voters in 2012.

The election is still not over and so I will briefly state my case for why you should consider voting for my candidacy as vice president of the BTP.

The simple reason is that I am promoting the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, where all parties and independents have the liberty to participate and be self-categorized with the party/category they proclaim at the moment.
* * *

2012

When electing the demonstration model of this parliament seat distribution system with 1000 seats in 2012, any name that garners 1/1001ths (or .999%) plus one vote is elected in consecutive order based on the rankings of the ranked votes on ballots and "eballots" printed out, also known as tics.

Under this system, the 8th USA Parliament has been organizing and growing for 16 years, and by using the Sainte-Lague system and free speech we've manged to grow pretty large in my opinion. Eager to improve, we've made many innovative improvements to our process, including what appears to be innovations in democracy; ranked choice consensus voting, eballots and the parliamentary go-ahead.

That said, I'd like to offer a little constructive criticism to the BoD of the Boston Tea Party, based on the very positive experience of the USA Parliament, so that they can consider making improvements to their own elections in the future.

Here are some basic descriptions of a few rules that have helped us evolve very fast at the USA Parliament, which have been thought out pretty well. If you'd like to have further discussions, I will be happy to follow up:

--Use real candidates only, do not promote NOTA as a choice, except when the person representing NOTA (there are varying uses) stands to represent the word.
--Allow ALL names nominated (and seconded) to access the ballot (no roadblocks).
--Do away with seconding (another road block, especially when BTP is a tiny group).
--Do away with "click the dot" (a plurality election system...not good at all)
--Allow up to three write-in names. (bring down more road blocks)
--Do away with deleting comments from people in the discussion areas (road blocks)
--Use only ranked choice voting in multi-winner districts.
--Never use single winner district elections, either plurality or IRV. IRV (instant runoff voting) is for single winner districts only and attracts egotistical single winner district power grabbers and control freaks.

Use only the most advanced voting system, the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, which is for multi-winner districts two or more (the more the better).

These are among a few of the election reforms that the USA Parliament has adopted in our 36 rules over the past 16 years.

I really do look forward to working with all people in 2012, when the USA Parliament will be nominating and electing 1000 members of parliament (MPs), and you're all welcomed and invited. We only have about 175 to 200 names who automatically qualify for our ballot when nominations start on 2/1/2012, so I hope you'll get in touch and sign up now so you can stay abreast of the schedule announcement on 1/1/2012.

Lastly, congratulations to Honorable Tiffany Briscoe [Boston Tea]. I'd like to personally invite her to the USA Parliament's "presidential debate committee", should she find the time and wish to participate.

I'm including a link below. Someone (her?) needs to vote for her name Tiffany Briscoe onto the USA Parliament's presidential debate committee, in order to be elected. The "eballot" is posted on the web page below, the voter must copy the ballot, follow the directions and mark the eballot correctly, and email it to the volunteer voter counters' email address. (Anyone may also sign up as a volunteer vote counter to observe the eballots as they come in, too).

Thanks again everyone, and I look forward to speaking or communicating with you anytime, I keep my cell phone on me at all times, and I'm easily reached at 415-686-1996, joogle@gonott.com or the contact link to the parliaments web page.

Very Truly Yours,
--James James Ogle
Candidate for Vice President of the Boston Tea (and still fighting!)

PS Here's the link to the elected "PDC" (presidential debate committee). Hope you like this concept!

http://usparliament.org/pdc.php

12/23/2011 - 14:02