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Win a Voter Choice ballot question in your town.

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Sign the Petitioner's Pledge

Beginning April 16th, 2010, our local teams will spend a weekend or two gathering signatures to get the Voter Choice proposal on the ballots of cities and towns all over the Commonwealth. The best part is, you only need about 300 signatures to win a ballot question in your town. It's not only fun, but the local campaign is great for keeping Voter Choice issue hot. Our fellow Massachusetts citizens need to ask: Are we ready to get our democracy back on track?

If you know you're ready, then sign the Petitioner's Pledge. The pledge is easy. Simply download an official petition form (and a few optional hand-outs), and collect signatures from voters in your city or town.

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Many petitioners complete their pledge in under an hour. As you get going with your collecting and find out how easy it is, you might decide to shoot for 50, or even 100 signatures. At that rate, you and your local team will complete your 300-signature goal in no time! So if you run out, just print off a couple more petition forms from the petitioner's kit, and go for it!



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Note: Please follow the guidelines for signature collection in the Petitioner's Kit. This will ensure that the signatures you collect will be valid (and not thrown out by town or state officials!) and count towards getting Voter Choice on the ballot.

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Pledge Roll

90 citizens are making sure Voter Choice gets on the ballot. Join Them.

When Name City Comments Signatures
2 weeks, 3 days ago Hannah Taytslin Needham Buttons, stickers and window decals would be great! 25
1 month, 2 days ago John Root Amherst IRV is the only chance that third parties have to get serious attention and grow - a major element in campaign reform. How about bumper stickers? 20
1/25/2010 Bert Alberts Shelburne Falls 50
1/21/2010 dave campolo greenfield 20
1/20/2010 joe pellegrino charlemont 20
12/26/2009 Katie Byrne Westfield 25
11/3/2009 Nancy Marin Mansfield 20
10/28/2009 vicki elson conway 25
10/25/2009 adamboshe Great Barrington 50
10/22/2009 Stephanie Carlson Easthampton 40
10/20/2009 Aaron Desatnik Jamaica Plain 1
10/17/2009 Elizabeth Owens Ellis Cambridge Downloaded petition at Kinkos , have petitioned for ballot access for Nader in 2004 and 2008. Will turn in petitions completed to the towns immediately and when I have 200+ signatures, I will mail the validated petitions to you for submission to the state elections where the 100,000 will be confirmed officially as valid. I suspect the Nov. 18 deadline requires the valid signatures to be received by the state elections on that date. Getting validated petitions turned in likely is helpful as an ongoing currency to net guaranteed success! 200
10/17/2009 Ludy Liu Lexington 3
10/16/2009 Zachary Bouchard Somerville 20
10/16/2009 Kalman Gacs Needham 20
10/15/2009 Virginia Schulman Northampton I'm encouraged by the enthusiasm of others! Let's do it! 20
10/15/2009 Lynn Nadeau Marblehead 50
10/15/2009 Robert Eastman Florence 10
10/14/2009 Gerry Weiss Amherst 20
10/13/2009 Susan McLucas Somerville I'll see what I can do. 30
10/13/2009 Theodore Streeter Amherst 20
10/12/2009 Joshua Thomson Somerville 1
10/9/2009 Danelle Wales 50
10/8/2009 Kathleen Maroney pittsfield 1
10/8/2009 Peter Mittell Cambridge 10
10/8/2009 Lawrence Fine Hudson Do we have any "graphics" that may be displayed on a car roof top or? 300
10/7/2009 Cedric Flower Charlton City more if I can 20
10/7/2009 Phoebe Piermarini North Brookfield 20
10/7/2009 Joaquin Font Cambridge I supported Cross-Endorsement Question 2 in 2006 but this is even better, I am really excited for it to pass! 20
10/6/2009 Elizabeth Marcus Newburyport 20
10/5/2009 Eva Cashdan Amherst I will try to get some others to collect signatures as well. 50
10/4/2009 Martin Bourqui Cambridge 200
10/3/2009 Judith Seelig Pelham Nice framing! "Voter Choice" much better than I.R.V. 25
10/2/2009 Edward MacKenzie Andover 20
10/2/2009 Robert Oakes South Yarmouth 2
10/2/2009 s c miller northborough, MA 5
10/2/2009 Mark Quevillon Cambridge I wonder what the world would be like if Gore got Nader votes. No Dubya? No Iraq? I'm doing this more for them than for us. 100
10/1/2009 Brett Barros Brookline If we fail to do this, we have failed to protect the basest values of democracy. 500
9/30/2009 Laura Shivley Somerville 5
9/28/2009 Nat Fortune Whately I was one of several in Amherst last Saturday wearing bright yellow and black signs around our necks asking voters to support IRV as we collected signatures-- some people literally chased us down for a chance to sign. 100
9/28/2009 Lawrence Rogovin Arlington Other modern democracies use this method for selecting their leaders, with admirable results. With our current electoral system hostage to money and special interests and our legislative system reduced to two inert parties bickering, this is just the Rx this nation needs to move forward. 20
9/28/2009 Hugh M Ritchey Carlisle I first learned about IRV 5 years ago. I've been waiting for this moment to help make it happen! 100
9/28/2009 Robert Feuer Stockbridge 8
9/27/2009 Dorothy Scheeline Bosont 25
9/27/2009 Bob Connor Reading This can make a difference! 75
9/27/2009 Alan Ashbaugh Needham Let's do it! 100
9/27/2009 Diane Whitehouse Jamaica Plain I was going to do 50, I already got there on one street shift.. Very impowering process.. 150
9/25/2009 James Pimental Somerset 50
9/23/2009 Winston Healy Shelburne Falls Mahalo nui loa for your work! 3
9/23/2009 Jared Cowing Worcester Thank you thank you thank you for supporting IRV in Massachusetts! I have been a supporter for years and wondering if there would ever be a drive to put IRV on the ballot! I will tell anyone and everyone I know! 50
9/23/2009 bob richards cambridge 40
9/22/2009 Russell Weiss-Irwin Medford I may not be able to vote, but when I can, I'll have a better shot at getting my voice heard! 50
9/22/2009 Larry Ely Amherst 400
9/21/2009 Benjamin Kuss Allston 50
9/21/2009 Jay O'Hara Bourne Local School Committee member 50
9/20/2009 Mike Heichman Boston I may be able to do more, 50
9/20/2009 Jeffrey Turner Pittsfield 20
9/20/2009 Ileana Jones Cambridge I may be able to do more 50
9/17/2009 Howard W. Hayward West Bridgewater Onward and Upward ! 100
9/15/2009 Matthew Andrews Dorchester I think there will be an unmeasurable benefit to the political discourse in Massachusetts, to get us away from the horse race and into the issues. 500
9/14/2009 michael horan Stoughton THE opportunity to pick the lock on the system door. Achieve this and the entire landscape changes: they "can't close the door when the wall's caved in" 200
9/14/2009 Steve May Hull 20
9/14/2009 sarah bayer Jamaica Plain 20
9/14/2009 Patrick Burke westfield, ma Yay, electoral reform! Fired up! Ready to Go! 300
9/14/2009 Toni Serafini Lexington This is a really good thing ! - to be able to vote for who you really want, and not worry if your vote may be spoiler.. 100
9/14/2009 David Entin Florence 20
9/13/2009 john gurvitch Holyoke 20
9/13/2009 L Scott Laugenour Lenox 50
9/12/2009 Carol L Coakley Millis Just what I always wanted more votes and more choices. 100
9/12/2009 Mary Aborn-Hyatt Billerica Such a chance to give Massachusetts voters a choice in voting! 50
9/12/2009 Dave Dionne Westport Choice for the polar bears! 200
9/12/2009 Nancy Lee Wood Taunton It is high time that we support real democratic processes in elections. This is an opportunity for real voter change n MA. Let's just DO IT! 300
9/12/2009 Carma Forgie Arlington I've wanted this for several years. It will make the electoral process fairer and get the people's choice. 50
9/12/2009 Richard Vaillette Westminster By eliminating the so called spoiler effect we can provide real choice to the voters of Massachusetts. Hopefully many others will join me in the next two months. 50
9/11/2009 John Eskew Allston Let's do this... 50
9/11/2009 Robert Riman Cambridge 20
9/11/2009 Maureen Barillaro Somerville I think I can easily do 500 in 2 months- its worth the effort! 500
9/10/2009 Rand Wilson Somerville 25
9/10/2009 Ken Selcer lexington 25
9/10/2009 Noah Rohrer lexington 40
9/10/2009 Eli Beckerman Cambridge This has the potential to transform the political process so that it actually works for the people! 100
9/9/2009 Dave England Brookline In little chunks, we can do this. 150
9/4/2009 David Schaich Cambridge 100
9/3/2009 Emily Hardt Somerville 20
9/2/2009 jill stein lexington 100
9/1/2009 Maggie Zhou Arlington 200
9/1/2009 Gregory Dennis Somerville 100
9/1/2009 Andrew Kingsley Cambridge 100
9/1/2009 Peter Dartmouth 100
8/30/2009 Adam Friedman Somerville This is a game-changing electoral reform 500

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