[Petitioning] Final state slate petition count??

[Susan Rodgers]

BTW:  we are trying to keep the exact number total under wraps.  It actually
takes a lot of work to count the exact number of signatures.  We want the
challengers to have to do this in order to cut down on their time at
actually checking them.  So yeah, keep it a little quiet.

Thanks!
Susan

On 6/28/06, Tom Abram <tabram at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We filed 4,130 sheets for the state slate candidates (with an estimated
> 39,200 signatures.)  The stack was nearly 20 inches tall and shocked
> everyone in the State Board of Elections office.  For my campaign, we
> submitted 4,290 of our hard earned signatures - the legal requirement was
> 2,260.  There should be enough of an overage for both of our petitions to
> hold up in court.  The petitions of all Green candidates needing them have
> already been copied by Democratic staffers.  Challenges must be filed by
> Monday, July 3rd.
>
> The Constitution Party submitted nearly 4,400 signatures for their state
> slate.  They were impressed with our effort and congratulated us.  We'll see
> if they squeak by.  The Independence Party (who we didnt even know was
> petitioning) submitted about 150 signatures.  It really speaks to our
> organizational abilities that we were able to collect so many and overcome
> these hurdles.
>
> There was a press conference in Springfield where many Green candidates
> spoke: Rich Whitney (Governor), Dan Rodgriguez-Schlorff (Treasurer), David
> Black (Attorney General), Alicia Snyder (Comptroller), myself, and Charlie
> Howe (115th state rep).  There were several newspapers in attendence,
> including Chicago Tribune, News-Gazette, Springfield Journal-Register, and
> the Peoria Journal Star.  You can read several articles about the effort by
> going to news.google.com and looking up "Rich Whitney".
>
> Thanks for everyone who helped petition.  We will need people to do data
> entry to prepare for likely challenges, and campaign volunteers.  I'll send
> an email later about what we need for data entry.
>
> Congratualtions, we made it!
> Tom
>
>
> On 6/28/06, jscheff2 at uiuc.edu < jscheff2 at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > So does anyone on here know how many signatures were finally
> > delivered for the State Slate candidates on Monday?  I haven't
> > heard anything from the state, and I can't seem to reach Tom
> > or Susan (who I presume were actually there in Springfield) by
> > phone.  Or is this not supposed to be public information?
> >
> > Jack
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