[pp.int.general] Pirate Party of the United States is starting to collect signatures

[Will Pomes]

yeah, I know all about it.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Glenn Kerbein <
glenn.kerbein at pirate-party.us> wrote:

> The Secretary of State for the state of Iowa doesn't have anything
> specific. The only thing I could pull up was this:
> http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/elections/formingpoliticalparty.pdf
> Which states that to be a political party, you have to have voted in the
> last election for president or governor.
>
> Will Pomes wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Norton <
> > andrew.norton at pirate-party.us> wrote:
> >
> >> Anton Tamminen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Glenn Kerbein wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> California will be a tough cookie to crack for many reasons. Namely,
> the
> >>>> Secretary of State for California states that a party must collect at
> >>>> least 5,000 votes, being that it is such a large state.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> To engage myself in the age-old Finnish tradition of competing in
> degrees
> >>> of misery, I shall mention that we in Finland also need to collect 5000
> >>> signatures. Californias population is approx 36.5 million. Finland's is
> 5.3,
> >>> with people scattered around an area more than twice the size of
> California
> >>> :)
> >>>
> >> nope, he said VOTES.
> >>
> >> to start the state party, the numbers are based on the number of votes
> cast
> >> in the last governors election.
> >> 1% of that amount, if people give a statement of support ("I support
> this
> >> party, and will possibly vote for them" sort of thing) OR
> >> 10% of the total, if people sign a petition ("I think it would be a good
> >> idea to have this party on the ballot" sort of thing)
> >>
> >> 8.8Million voted at the last one I checked (but that was before the last
> >> set of elections, so there might be a new number) which means 88,000
> >> statements, or 880,000 signatures. neither of which are easy.
> >>
> >> Of course, if I'm wrong, expect to see an email from Glenn correcting
> me.
> >>
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> > Iowa also requires 5500 votes, unless I misunderstand the law as it is
> > written.
> > (I did the research for the wiki page, copied directly from a document by
> > the state.)
> >
> >
> >
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