<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Norton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.norton@pirate-party.us">andrew.norton@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;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Anton Tamminen wrote:<br>
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Glenn Kerbein wrote:<br>
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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>
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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 :)<br>
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nope, he said VOTES.<br>
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to start the state party, the numbers are based on the number of votes cast in the last governors election.<br>
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<br>
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)<br>
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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.<br>
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Of course, if I'm wrong, expect to see an email from Glenn correcting me.<br>
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Andrew<br>
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Regards,<br>
</blockquote></blockquote><div><br>Iowa also requires 5500 votes, unless I misunderstand the law as it is written. <br>(I did the research for the wiki page, copied directly from a document by the state.)<br></div></div>
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