Licenses for Illegals
I’ve signed the petition for the referendum, have you?
Also, I’m puzzled that they don’t have a downloadable version of the petition form on their site. Yes, it needs to be double-sided, on legal-sized paper. Yes, I realize that not everyone has that set up. But is there any earthly reason not to offer it for download to those who do? Unless somebody convinces me that this would be a bad idea, I may scan and host a copy here.
UPDATE: There seems to be an emerging consensus that readers may not follow a warning that says “do not print this out on anything other than a double-sided, legal sized piece of paper, and even then, look at the damned thing before signing it.” My guess is that most voters who are that stoopid are unlikely to support this referendum anyway, but I don’t want to take any unnecessary chances. So instead of scanning or posting the petition here, I’m going to urge everyone to visit the web site or call (626) 357-8237. They’ll send you two petition pages, so sign one and send it in right away. If you have access to a copier that can make clean, crisp, double-sided, legal-sized copies of the remaining petition, use it. If you don’t, or if you aren’t sure, you can still save the California Republican Assembly time and money by taking it to Kinko’s. Then again, they’re not hurting too badly for funds, so if you’d rather just keep calling them to get more copies, that’s fine too. The main thing is to send the completed petitions to the CRA, not the Secretary of State. The CRA will then review the petition for errors, prior to sending the forms in and risking an issue with invalid petitions. If you’ve lost or used the pre-printed envelope, the mailing address is:
Save Our License
A Project of the California Republican Assembly
P.O. Box 877
Monrovia, CA 91017-0877
October 1st, 2003 at 9:37 am
It’s a bad idea. The ways in which people can screw it up, from an elections official’s PoV) are large. People might think they’ve signed it, and had it disallowed. Worse, in the sampling to avoid a full count, disallowed petitions would be a *bad* thing. They’ll get enough signatures with 20th Century methods, why take this risk?
October 1st, 2003 at 11:02 am
Downloadable petitions are not allowed. I have no idea why, they just are. Other people have been publicizing petitions on radio talk shows, for example, to repeal the tripling of auto registration fees, but they tell people they have to send in for the printed petition.
Maybe it’s the requirement for legal-sized paper. But then, why that?
October 1st, 2003 at 11:16 am
It might also be an automated processing issue, where even minor imaging changes screw things up.
October 1st, 2003 at 11:30 am
Well, for the car tax one, the text of the petition is so long it’s actually a folded double sided paper. That’s nearly impossible to print properly with a home setup.
I’m with everyone else- why take chances?
October 1st, 2003 at 11:45 am
Kevin: I don’t think there is a formal requirement that legal sized paper always be used, but there is a requirement that the entire text of the statute to be rescinded must appear on the petition. That’s not really doable on a standard piece of paper.
October 1st, 2003 at 1:22 pm
My petitions are on the kitchen table. I’ll get to them this weekend.
October 1st, 2003 at 1:49 pm
Actually, let the CRA spend some money on this–that way they can’t waste it doing ads for Tom McClintock!