[Lnc-business] Re. SD petition drive

[Roland Riemers]

Bill,
I have been checking with Charles Tuttle the Petitioner, and they (3) are interested in doing the SD petition drive.  Checked on requirements, and it is 6,936 signatures.  My understanding, unlike ND, is they have to be registered voters, but the petitioners can register them as well as get their signatures.    Deadline is 5 March 2016, but naturally they do not want to collect in the dead of winter, so our realistic deadline should be by the end of November to avoid cold weather as well as give the SD party time to get candidates on line.
Charles likes 10% over,  so I think a realistic goal would be 7,500 signatures. 
They are willing to do it for $15,000 and they would pay their own expenses such as hotels, etc.and they would be very happy with that.
To make this effort worthwhile,  I would suggest we also offer a $5 bounty if they give out membership applications and they later enroll in the party.  I would be willing to sponsor $2 of that $5.  I think anyone who enrolls in the party during the time of petitioning, and up to one month afterwards, should be credited to the efforts of the petitioners.  Actually, if Wes was willing to go along with it,  I think it would benefit the party if we even gave a $10 per new member bounty, because the party would still come out way ahead.   We would need to get them a good supply of membership applications to hand out.
It is my understanding that there currently are some other petition drives going on in SD,  so the sooner we get going on this the better and everyone will be happy.
Of course the question still remains is can SD put some actual candidates on the ballot if we put the party on the ballot?
Roland Riemers
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