ELECTION DAY: November 06, 2012

RICH STEVENSON

CANDIDATE FOR OH 1 US CONGRESS

BALLOT ACCESS PETITION

Deadline: March 5, 2012

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Last Election 2010:

ON the Ballot as Green Party Candidate, Feb 2010: Obtained the Green Party endorsement for Congress OH1. Obtained the 25 valid signatures needed early in February 2010. Rich was on the General Election ballot on November 02, 2010.

2012 Status: The 2012 petition has not been created. The petition will be created very early in the election cycle. Petitions will be ready for use by Summer 2011. The earlier the better. The page below discusses the situation prior to February 2012.

Note: I have some ideas for making the most of the 2012 election year for Independents. We will use Election Day participants to ask for votes at the polls on Election Day, etc. Town Hall Election Day Politics.

NOTE: The Presidential year Petition deadline (March) is two months earlier than the Gubernatorial year deadline (May). A Suit needs to be filed in the 6th District, Federal Court. A successful suit could move the petition deadline for all Independent and minor party candidates for Federal office to the same August petition deadline established in Federal Court for the Office of President. The same Federal suit could also become a precedent to sue to make the petition deadline the same August date for all independent and minor party candidates for Ohio statewide and legislative Public offices.
Rich Stevenson rls 02-17-11

1,940 valid signatures needed for Independent ballot access:

Download the 2012 Petition for Circulation:

May be needed, not yet endorsed On the Green Party Ballot for 2012!

DOWNLOAD the PETITIONS PDFs to print and copy; 2012 not CREATED to date Two files, two sheets. Will create the petitions as soon as the committee signatures are completed.

If you have no legal size paper to print the petition, you can skip that step and just have your petition paper copies made at a copy center from the legal length PDF file pages.

Wait, the files below were the 2006 Petition. You can look if you want, but they can not be used for the 2012 election. The file names will be the same when the 2012 petitions are Published by Summer 2011.

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Front Side:  cs2pr.us/pdf/StevensonPetitionFront.pdf

Back Side: cs2pr.us/pdf/StevensonPetitionBack.pdf

Contact the Campaign for Hard Copies:  

Unofficial Facts about the 2012 OH 1 petitions. We will need about 1,940 valid signatures (1,675 was the official 2006 number of valid signatures needed). The unofficial number of valid signatures needed is based upon 1% of the votes cast in the last, 2010, OH 1 election year. 1% of 193,976 votes cast in 2010, or 1%, is 1,940.

The candidates for the monopoly parties, Democratic and Republican, need to get only 50 valid signatures to qualify to be on the ballot. Very easy.

An independent, like Rich, like you, needs to get 38.8 times as many valid signatures to qualify to be on the ballot. That is 3,880% more valid signatures. We non-partisan independents need many more signatures. That is not equal protection under the law for non-partisan independents. You and me.

80% Valid: Not every signature we get will be a valid signature. If 80% are valid, a very high number of valid signatures, we will need to turn in 2,425 total signatures, which is equal to 121.25 full petition sheets.

50% Valid: A reasonable percentage of valid signatures for pubic signature collection, we will need to turn in 3,880 total signatures, which is equal to 194.00 full petition sheets. 

Our Goal: 65% valid signatures. We will need to turn in 2,985 total signatures, which is equal to 149.25 full petition sheets. (28 more full sheets than 80% valid requires.)

We will have five hundred petition sheets on hand to distribute to our petition circulator team. Each sheet has 20 signature lines, or enough sheets to contain 10,000 signatures. We can turn in a maximum of 5,820 signatures. We can make many mistakes. But we still need to "git 'er done."

We could spoil, lose, or otherwise not use 350 petition sheets and still have enough total signatures. We need enough total signatures to fill 149 petition sheets plus 5 valid signatures on a 150th sheet. Our 2,985 total signature goal could be done with 30 circulator's who get 100 signatures or 299 circulators who get 10 signatures. 

Ten signatures from close friends, neighbors, and family you know to be registered voters is a terrific contribution. Those signatures would have a very high validity rate of 80% or more. A little effort means a lot for ballot access. Please make some effort.

Could you take a single sheet? Get 10 signatures or up to 20 signatures? 

cs2pr.us/Rich/index2.html . 

Or Use the Links Below to Download:

OH Petition Rules PDF:
cs2pr.us/Rich/pdf/OHpetitionRules.pdf

Fourth Page Flyer PDF: Give one to each person we ask to sign the petition. Four per page. cs2pr.us/Rich/pdf/4fly.pdf  Or the Three per page version, cs2pr.us/Rich/pdf/3fly.pdf with "Register & Vote" message.

Talking Points, Dist1OH Areas PDF: End the bipartisan culture of corruption in Washington DC, and five bullets. Stay on message as you talk to people around you about the campaign. All areas where our voters live.

cs2pr.us/Rich/pdf/TalkingPointsDist1Areas.pdf

IMPORTANT: Telephone 513-632-7001 or 513-632-7000, Ext 1 for Hamilton County or (513-887-3700 for Butler County), to check on your voter registration status. See if you are current. Your voter registration must be current to circulate a ballot access petition. If needed, you can easily get registered so you can circulate ballot access petitions. We can help you get registered.

The petition will be created and copies made this Summer 2011. The five-person committee on the petition will have the right to pick my replacement if I am unable to complete the campaign or complete my elected term in office for any reason. Do show your interest to circulate a petition by filling in the e-ONLINE FORM with your email and phone number. You will get hard copies of the petition and email notice of signature gathering events. Collection of signatures will be on a tight schedule. The deadline is March 5, 2012. Your help is much needed to get on the 2012 ballot. Any registered Ohio voter can circulate a petition anywhere in Ohio. For example, if you are a college student living in District One, but are from another area of Ohio, you can circulate a petition even though you are not eligible to vote in District One. Any registered Ohio voter can circulate any ballot access petition for any Ohio candidate or ballot initiative issue in Ohio.

Your Voice: e-ONLINE FORM!

Your Information is not made public. Fill in all items marked with an asterisk. Indicate "RICH PETITION" and "Hamilton County" or "Butler County" in the comment box.

I Pledge to be Self Term-Limited to Two Terms in Office: Four Years

RICH STEVENSON, dist1oh@cs2pr.us