yeah, I know all about it.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Glenn Kerbein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glenn.kerbein@pirate-party.us">glenn.kerbein@pirate-party.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The Secretary of State for the state of Iowa doesn't have anything<br>
specific. The only thing I could pull up was this:<br>
<a href="http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/elections/formingpoliticalparty.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/elections/formingpoliticalparty.pdf</a><br>
Which states that to be a political party, you have to have voted in the<br>
last election for president or governor.<br>
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Will Pomes wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Norton <<br>
> <a href="mailto:andrew.norton@pirate-party.us">andrew.norton@pirate-party.us</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Anton Tamminen wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Glenn Kerbein wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> California will be a tough cookie to crack for many reasons. Namely, the<br>
>>>> Secretary of State for California states that a party must collect at<br>
>>>> least 5,000 votes, being that it is such a large state.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>> To engage myself in the age-old Finnish tradition of competing in degrees<br>
>>> of misery, I shall mention that we in Finland also need to collect 5000<br>
>>> signatures. Californias population is approx 36.5 million. Finland's is 5.3,<br>
>>> with people scattered around an area more than twice the size of California<br>
>>> :)<br>
>>><br>
>> nope, he said VOTES.<br>
>><br>
>> to start the state party, the numbers are based on the number of votes cast<br>
>> in the last governors election.<br>
>> 1% of that amount, if people give a statement of support ("I support this<br>
>> party, and will possibly vote for them" sort of thing) OR<br>
>> 10% of the total, if people sign a petition ("I think it would be a good<br>
>> idea to have this party on the ballot" sort of thing)<br>
>><br>
>> 8.8Million voted at the last one I checked (but that was before the last<br>
>> set of elections, so there might be a new number) which means 88,000<br>
>> statements, or 880,000 signatures. neither of which are easy.<br>
>><br>
>> Of course, if I'm wrong, expect to see an email from Glenn correcting me.<br>
>><br>
>> Andrew<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>>> Regards,<br>
>>><br>
> Iowa also requires 5500 votes, unless I misunderstand the law as it is<br>
> written.<br>
> (I did the research for the wiki page, copied directly from a document by<br>
> the state.)<br>
><br>
><br>
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