For Petition Circulators

Overview A prior blast e-mail [http://www.scribd.com/doc/204886482/Petition] provided a detailed overview of this process, taking into account the prospect that people may wish to be empowered to download their own petitions in case they would want to circulate them in multiple counties. This checklist is intended both to orient motivated-Republicans to the process that will be followed regarding Guzzardis effort and to summarize requests that should be honored; thus, reviewing the rules introduced this year by the Pennsylvania Department of State is strongly-advised, as per information that wont be repeated here. These individuals [congealing as a campaign infrastructure] are available to clarify this advice: Bob Guzzardi Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D. Donna Ellingsen Jay Russell Blake Meyer 215=873-1317 215=333-4900 610=932-2242 267=974-5567 215=873-3070 bobguzzardi@bobguzzardi.com rsklaroff@gmail.com dcellingsen@yahoo.com jayrussell20102011@hotmail.com blakemeyer@bobguzzardi.com

Petitions should be sent to the following address; after processing, they will be given to Guzzardi: Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D. 8001 Roosevelt Boulevard, Suite #500C Philadelphia, PA 19152-3041 Generic Requests Enclosed are three petitions [for your county] and two SASEs [stamped, self-addressed envelopes]; circulating in any other county will be possible if a separate form is printed-out either from the attachment that accompanies this memo or mailed by dr. bob Sklaroff (because master-copies for all 67 counties have been printed). If you employ the attachment, note that you must create a solitary double-sided petition; the pages must be created head-to-head; if youre unsure, just request another. [The bar-codes are candidate/county-specific, but it is not necessary for you to recreate them from the DoS-website; contrariwise, they are not numbered, so that they can be submitted in any sequence.] Petitioning cannot start until February 18th; all signatures must be submitted to the DoS by March 11th. Remit completed/notarized petitions on both February 25th and March 4th, regardless of how many signatures have been acquired; they will be copied/reviewed and submitted to the DoS in waves. Therefore, if you continue to accumulate signatures on your petitions during the final week, you can submit them yourself, although we would want to be provided a copy thereof [for future reference]. Do not feel intimidated; although any circulator can acquire signatures from any county, each petition must be county-specific; for example, an individual who lives in Philadelphia can acquire signatures from any of Pennsylvanias 67 counties, including Montgomery, just as long as the person who signs is a voter in the county that has been bar-coded on the petition. No matter how many signatures have been acquired on a petition, the PETITIONER must have it notarized BEFORE it is remitted. (To be clear, before a person signs, the petitioner should confirm his/her residence in the county designated on the front-side as the COUNTY OF SIGNERS; thus, it is not anticipated that any will be subject to challenge.)

Specific Requests The active voter status (and political party) of each potential signer can be confirmed via the DoS-site [https://www.pavoterservices.state.pa.us/Pages/VoterRegistrationStatus.aspx]; entering the individuals demographics [county, first/last name, and date-of-birth] will also confirm where that individual votes. [Actual signatures can only be confirmed as legit by consulting each countys registration data, but it is assumed here that no one is going to forge lists of names gleaned directly from the phone book.] Both the petition-circulator and the petition-signers must be registered Republicans. Anyone planning to go door-to-door can be provided (via email) a list of super-voters [people who vote regularly] as well as all voters [in a neighborhood]. Acquiring contact information [telephone-number and e-mail address] is optional, but its provision would maximize subsequent communication-updates; this can be provided on a separate sheet [for insertion within an Excel form that has already been createdand used]. Signatures must be cursive (not printed); the printed-name must match exactly how it was registered (not using nick-names). The address must cite the name of the municipality (Boro, City or Township) where the signer resides (not his/her post-office/community designation); thus, a person living in Rydal (a neighborhood) must print Abington (Township). Everything should be written in pen (not pencil); some suggest blue-ink is preferable, although others feel black-ink will reproduce optimally. There is no justification to use ditto-marks and the listing of each date on which the signature has been acquired (Date, Month and Year) must be in chronological order; if an error occurs, the entire line must be struck and a new line should be used for the corrected signature; the petitioner cannot correct any error. The circulator must have the completed form notarized before being sent-back for official-filing; therefore, the affidavit must be completed in the presence of the NOTARY-PUBLIC (noting that the same person cannot serve as both circulator and Notary). The circulator must sign and print his/her name [spaces 2 & 3] and write his/her street, municipality, and zip code [spaces 4 & 5], without P.O. Boxes. The Notary must use a stamp (embossed-seals optional) containing Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Name of Notary, Municipality & County where Notary was commissioned (county is not required to match the county appearing at the top left of the affidavit), and Commission expiration date (date must not be chronologically after the date in which the petition was notarized). These data must be in a box. If you choose to generate your own petitions, you must ensure the pages are paired properly; therefore, you cannot use page 1 of Philadelphia County and page 2 of Montgomery County, inasmuch as the bar-codes [the lines] and SPARQ-code [the squares] will not match [front-back]. Addendum In many respects, one could view the need for a snail-mailing to have been obviated by this e-mail, inasmuch as you are being provided both instructions [revised following initial circulation, yesterday] and the petitions that must be used [via the accompanying attachment, derived directly from Guzzardi]. Perhaps providing hard-copy will empower you to recruit others to circulate petitions, as well; you can, of course, feel free to submit the names of other petitioners directly, and they will be provided the same info that you will have received [via e-mail and snail-mail]. The ability to invoke paper-submissions persists, although the DoS probably is downplaying it because it is more labor-intensive; there is no statutory mandate that petitions be bar-coded and/or SPARQ-coded, for example, although this result is seamlessly-achieved by following the instructions of the DoS [channeled herein]. Our efforts will be targeted, for sure, so we must pay-attention to these details prospectivelyprompting these e-mails.