We only have 37 Ballot Initiative #48 Liaisons to the Circuit Clerks out of a possible 82 County. We have Liaisons for: Adams Alcorn Benton Bolivar Calhoun Chickasaw Claiborne Copiah Covington DeSoto Forrest Franklin Granada Hancock Harrison Hinds Jackson Jasper Jones Kemper Lafayette Lamar Lauderdale Leake Lee Lowndes Madison Marion Monroe Neshoba Newton Oktibbeha Pike Pontotoc Rankin Tippah Tishomingo Union Warren Winston If you are interested in representing the sponsor of this initiative to your Circuit Clerk, PLMK; Kellitaj@aol Here are the responsibilities, to the best of my guestamation: WE NEED: 82 Circuit Clerk Liaisons The purpose of having 82 volunteers as our Circuit Clerk Liaisons is so that we can know what is happening with our Legalize and Decriminalize Cannabis ballot initiative #48. This volunteer position will require “volunteer work time” until October 2015. If a liaison is unable to help out, they need to make sure they are replaced. This is a vital position for the success of our ballot initiative to legalize and decriminalize cannabis. Here’s what I THINK they will need to do: 1. B.I.48 Liaisons will each receive a letter of introduction from ballot initiative sponsor Kelly Jacobs to present to their County Circuit Clerk so that the Circuit Clerk will know that they are our official representative of Ballot Initiative #__ (number coming soon) for their county. Circuit Clerks do not want a bunch of people asking them questions, it is easier for them to notify a designated person for each ballot initiative. Currently the SOS has 3 other ballot initiatives collecting signatures: #44 - Referendum Process Permitting the Repeal of Stat Laws and Local Ordinances, #45 - School Vouchers #46 - Mississippi Heritage Ours will be the fourth ballot initiative a circuit clerk must certify, and it can all get too confusing if we do not attempt some level of order. We must write our ballot initiative number, in yellow, in the top right corner to try to make it different in appearance from the others. We do not want other initiative drives to receive our paperwork by accident. 2. Area volunteers/coordinators will be asked to have their County B.I.48 Liaisons turn in their collected petitions and voter registration forms so that we can make sure that the voter registration forms are dealt with before the petitions so that every signature is counted. This might create more order, but is not required. Liaisons are so important because they let the locals know how their county circuit clerk treats voter registration forms (they do them first, before certifying ballot initiatives, or make them wait for months until before the August primary election). Liaisons are important because they need to have a good relationship with their circuit clerk to ask them to please register the voters on the new voter registration forms so that their petition signatures will be certified, not rejected. 3. B.I.48 Liaisons will be asked to please NUMBER the petitions (bottom right corner) that they hand in (to make sure they get them all back) to the Circuit Clerks. We should expect shady dealings, so we will do our best to have a record of our work. It would be good to have the Circuit Clerk sign a document, acknowledging receipt of ____ ballot initiative petitions. Instagram videos are great when handing in a pile of petitions! 4. B.I.48 Liaisons will be asked to check over all of the rejected signatures and work with the area volunteers/coordinators to try to GET THE REJECTED SIGNATURES RESUBMITTED CORRECTLY. This can be done/delegated at group meetings. 5. B.I.48 Liaisons The Liaisons from 11 split counties will need to be on the top of their game. For the purposes of a ballot initiative, we must follow the boundaries that divide 11 counties into different districts. The split county problems in: Adams (4 & 2), Attala (2 & 3), Grenada (1 & 2), Hinds (2 & 4), Jones (3 & 4), Leake (2 & 3), Madison (3 & 2), Montgomery (1 & 2), Panola (1 & 2), Tallahatchie (1 & 2), Wayne (3 & 5), but all be correctly placed in their proper districts so that our initiative is not disqualified. Notice how District TWO is features in most of these splits? Circuit Clerks are SUPPOSED to look at the precinct numbers and designate the proper District number on our BI forms, which is confusingly referred to on the petition form as Congressional District. Confusing because we only have 4 Congressional Districts NOW, but we did have 5 districts, and the courts have ruled that for a ballot initiative we must use the 5 district boundaries. Volunteers for these counties need to have a County map handy so they can show it to people who will sign their petition and accurately place them in the proper district. We cannot rely on the Circuit Clerks to correct/properly designate our petition forms, because if they err, we are the ones who will have a failed initiative if we lack enough signatures to qualify from every district. 6. B.I.48 Liaisons will be asked to periodically, PERSONALLY check in with their Circuit Clerk to pick up certified petitions and get them to Kelly Jacobs 3985 Robertson Gin Rd, Hernando, MS 38632 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. All of the ballot initiative petitions with no less than 107,216 certified signatures which are equally divided into 21,443 signatures from all 5 districts, must be presented to the Mississippi Secretary of State by Kelly Jacobs with a check for $500.00, no later than October 2, 2015 in order for our ballot initiative to be placed onto the 2016 presidential ballot. If we do not have enough signatures by October 2nd, we can continue to collect signatures until November 2015 and then hand them in before our one year deadline (which has yet to be determined) in December 2015. If we have enough signatures by that deadline, we will be placed onto the 2017 ballot. Volunteers to be their county’s B.I.48 Liaisons should contact Kelly Jacobs at Kellitaj@aol. Thank-you! PS Please note that everybody doesnt have to work together. There will be different clicks and circles of influence, so do not worry about that. I need to you try your best to make sure that the volunteers in your county are getting accurate information onto their petition forms. If you can get people to give them to you to hand it, that would be great, but if not, then you may need to do some repair work on the rejected signatures. Common mistakes that you can fix before a petition is handed in are: 1. The back of the petition was not copied. (copy the back portion before handing it in or all of the signatures on that page will be rejected.) 2. People forgot to sign some part of their petition – if possible find them for their signature, or call the person listed on the bottom of the petition to see if they know the person who was rejected. 3. I am asking for a large colorful #48 to be written into in the top right corner: red/yellow of every petition so that it STANDS OUT. I don’t care what color, as long as our petition will look different than the other 3 that are currently already being circulated and certified by circuit clerks. NUMBER EVERY PETITION on the bottom right corner, so that you know how many you are supposed to get back! KEEP A RECORD OF HOW MANY YOU HAND IN EVERY TIME YOU HAND THEM IN. 4. If someone signs using blue in, DO NOT sign over it in black ink, just ask your circuit clerk if its acceptable, and if not those will have to be redone. Im sure this list will grow but its all I have for now.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:32:39 +0000
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