Welcome Legalize Cannabis supporters! Here is the link to download our ballot initiative 48 petition, to legalize Marijuana. Please FOLLOW EVERY DIRECTION OR YOUR SIGNATURE WILL BE REJECTED! If you cannot print this onto legal paper, I will (snail) mail you the petition if you email me your name, county and phone number: kellitaj@aol. When you finish your petition, turn it in to the circuit clerk where the signators live. You might need many pages so that you will have them for people from other counties. Mail them to the distant circuit clerks if necessary. After you file your paperwork, please email how many signatures + the county to Kellitaj@aol. Here are the directions for filling out Ballot Initiative #48. You must follow all of the directions that are printed on the petition or YOUR signature might be rejected by the Circuit Clerk. We ask that you write a big number 48, possibly in colored ink in the top right corner, and if you hand in more than one petition, please number them in the bottom right corner so you/we can tell if one is missing. To prevent people from other counties accidentally writing on your petition form, fill in ONE county name in all 10 spaces, because if they live in a different county, they will need a different petition form. Here are the rules that are on the petition: 1. You must be registered to Vote. If you sign Petition #48 to Legalize and decriminalize cannabis and industrial hemp, without being registered to vote, your signature will be rejected by the Circuit Clerk. You can register at your county’s Circuit Clerk’s office, or download the voter registration form from the Internet, fill it out, and either mail it in, or take it to your Circuit Clerk. When they send you your voter registration card, is when you can sign #bi48 without fearing your signature will be rejected. 2. You must sign #bi48 using a black ink pen, and both pages of ballot initiative #48 must be copied onto ONE legal sized paper. Legal sized paper is longer than letter sized paper, and the initiative must be copied onto the front and back page. If you only copy page one, but not page two, your petition, with every signature on it, will be rejected by the Circuit Clerk. 3. You must LEGIBLY WRITE the name and address that you used to register to vote. You can sign your name illegibly, but the important printed name and address must be legible or the signature will be rejected by your Circuit Clerk. (Married or divorced women forget that they must sign using the name they are registered to vote with.) People move and this petition does not ask where are you living NOW, it asks for the name and address where you are registered to vote. Please find a place on the petition (another line or the margin) to add your phone number and email so that we can contact you if there is a problem. 4. Everyone on one petition must live in the same county. A different petition must be used each County because the Circuit Clerks only certify registered voters from their county. Once a petition has one to ten signatures, it can then be turned in to the Circuit Clerk of the county where the signatures reside. Please send an email to Kellitaj@aol and let her know how many signatures you turned in, and to which Circuit Clerk. This will allow us to get an idea of how our petition is doing, and how many signature certifications we should expect your Circuit Clerk to return to Initiative Sponsor Kelly Jacobs. In order to appear on the 2016 ballot, we must submit 21,443 certified signatures, from 5 different districts no later than October 2, 2015. Overages from one district cannot be used in another district. If we lack sufficient signatures to hand in by Oct 2, 2015, then we can still try to get onto the 2017 ballot by gathering sufficient signatures by our one year deadline of December, 2015. 5. A petition may not have more than 10 signatures on it, but it can have phone numbers and email addresses added on another line or in the margin, so that #bi48 organizers can contact petition signers if there is a problem: like their signature was REJECTED. The petition itself is not formatted to ask for your important contact information, but we want it! What if your signature was rejected, wouldn’t you want us to contact you so that you could try again?? 6. You cannot forge the names of anyone, especially family members onto the petition, or they will be rejected. 7. You cannot sign the petition more than once. The Circuit Clerk does keep track of whose signature has been certified, so additional signings will be rejected. However, if your signature was rejected, it can be re=submitted. 8. TURN IN YOUR COMPLETED PETITION TO YOUR CIRCUIT CLERK. They certify each signature, or write a red R if the signature is rejected. Mississippi has 82 Counties and each Circuit Clerk will be asked to certify our signatures as soon as they are handed in. We are trying to get this petition finished BEFORE the August 2015 primary and run off elections. PLEASE DO NOT WAIT! Hand it in and then let Kellitaj@aol know how many and to which Circuit Clerk. Thank-you.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:13:26 +0000
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