Wisconsin -- How To Get Petitions Signed By The Cart-Full

[shraby]

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This guy has a great suggestion for the April 5 voting day.
Just make sure you are outside the 100 foot distance from the polling place.

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I've found that the best place to collect signatures is outside polling places during elections. Instead of having to go look for people, they are coming to you -- sometimes in droves. Instead of wondering whether they are eligible to sign the petition, you can rest assured because they're walking to vote. Instead of getting them one or two at a time per household, you're sometimes getting them as fast as you can get people to sign. You can put in a full 12 hour day, and start signing people up as early as 7 in the morning -- even before they get to work. In essence, when done fully, such a project will result in petitions by the cart-full, especially for an issue as well publicized as that of recalling the white-right poster villains.

We organize by polling place, building volunteer teams for each location, by shifts, composed of people from those neighborhoods. We pre-select each team's location to make sure we comply with anti-electioneering laws, and to insure the team can have the best visibility and access to voters. We make sure each team has the proper gear -- tables, chairs, visibility posters, pens, water, food, etc -- and establish runs by still another team to provide the working team with what may come up during the day. We of course have a leadership team that keeps the working teams running, and tends to whatever may come up.

Sometimes the logistics aren't the best at particular polling places, but we try to work our way around it as best we can. Sometimes we have to avoid a location because of logistics, but there is always another polling place where those people can be used. Early voting and vote by mail have cut down the numbers of people who vote on election day. But when you still have people voting by the thousands and tens of thousands, there's a lot of signatures to fill your carts full with.

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[iwishiwas]

1. And the bars will open after the polls close--so continue to gather

sigs there (with permission).

[shraby]

2. Good thinking.

[HereSince1628]

3. Someone with access to a legal database should check this

Anywhere people gather is a good place to get signatures, but I've been voting here for more than 20 years and I've never seen a petition drive near or at a polling place

If it was legal I would expect that the abortion foes would be doing it every election.

[shraby]

4. The only restrictions I'm aware of is campaign material or

campaigning within 100 ft of a polling place.

[elocs]

5. I hadn't heard anywhere that there was trouble getting recall signatures. n/t

[shraby]

6. There isn't as far as I know, but a move like this could wind

up the bobbin on them.

[Scuba]

10. We're having trouble getting sigs on the Glen Grothman recall. Pretty red over here....

...and I like the suggestions.

I question whether gathering recall sigs outside the polls on election day could be classified as campaigning. I'll talk to the atty who's helping with the recall.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. This is a wonderful idea, which I have forwarded

to some places, like my county party, where I hope it will take root.

[Ohio Joe]

8. K&R - nt

[deacon]

9. KICK!