How to Get on the Ballot as a Kucinich Delegate in PA

1. Get a permission form from PADEMS.com fill it out and send to Dennis Kucinich’s Campaign Headquarters in Cleveland to get his permission to run.  The State Committee in Harrisburg, PA needs to have this by Jan. 8, 2008 in order for you to run.
2. Obtain the Nomination Petition and start gathering the minimum of 250 registered Democratic Party voters in your Congressional District starting Jan. 24, 2008 and ending on Feb. 12, 2008. Each nomination petition contains 50 signatures.  You must print on both sides of the 8 ½ by 14 sheet of paper.  This will be available at the Bureau of Elections (Department of State) Website. http://www.dos.state.pa.us/elections/site/default.asp.  You may also request a hard copy via snail mail from them.  The State Dem Organizer at the meeting on Sept. 7th  told us to gather 500 to survive any challenges.  Be sure you have a voter file list to be sure that the person signing puts in their voter precinct address and not their postal address, that they are a registered Democrat and that they sign it the way they signed it when they registered to vote.  Voter files are available from the Party, the County and the State.  I learned this the hard way when circulating nomination petitions for Chuck Pennacchio to get him on the ballot.
3. Each Nomination Petition must be notarized by Notary Public.  This costs anywhere from $8.00 to $15.00 a sheet.  I found a notary public at work who does it for $5.00.  My insurance agent did my nomination petition for committee person for free.  He is a Democrat and it was only one sheet.  I needed 15 and I had 50 signatures.
4. Submit you 250 + notarized petitions in Harrisburg, PA to the Bureau of Elections in the North Office Building at the Capitol Complex Second Floor on Feb. 13, 2008 and pay a $25.00 fee to get on the ballot.  This fee can be waived if you get special permission from the PA Dems in Harrisburg, PA http://www.dos.state.pa.us/elections/site/default.asp
5. On April 22, 2008 the tentative date for the Primary, you must receive at least 15% of registered Democratic voters, voting in the Democratic Primary voting for you for the candidate that you are pledged to in order to go to Denver, CO August 24-28, 2008.
6. If you win, don’t make your own reservations for hotel or airfare.  The DNC does that.  They get a group rate and want all the Delegates herded and their whereabouts known at all times.

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