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fatlazyless · 01-09-2008, 06:57 AM

Yesterday's primary election at the Meredith Community Center was like the perfect spot for collecting signatures for an SB2 petition, plus the weather was highly cooperative, too. I got there at about 8am, equipped with my olde rockin' chair, and rocked away for about ten hours until six o'clock, collecting a lot of signatures. Printed name, signed name, address, and date on two seperate petitions; one for town business, and one for school business. I have not yet actually counted up all the signatures yet, but there are quite a few. Later on today, I will deliver the two petitions to the Meredith Town Clerk for her inspection, scrutiny and administration. Hopefully, the petitions will pass legal scrutiny. I got my petition info from a website for NH taxpayers, and will put that website here later on.

Thanks again to all the Meredith voters who chose to sign the petitions. It was a fairly easy "sell" and that presidential primary and the warm weather were the perfect spot.
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Here's the count. For the town petition, there's 15 1/2 pages w/ 13 voter's per page for about 200 Meredith voters, total. And , for the school petition, there's 15 pages w/ 13 voters per page for also about 200 Meredith voters.

If you read the rsa, it says that 25 signatures is what's needed.

As I understand it, what these petitons do is to put the two questions on a town voting ballot for a yes or no vote.
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town petition

We, the undersigned Town of Meredith registered voters respectfully request that the Town adopt the following warrant.
Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 40:13 (known as SB2) to allow official ballot voting on all issues before the Town of Meredith on the second Tuesday of March?
By signing this petition, you are affirming that you are a registered voter in the Town of Meredith.
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school petition

We, the undersigned Town of Meredith registered voters respectfully request that the Town adopt the following warrant.
'Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 40:13 (known as SB2) to allow official ballot voting on all issues before the Interlakes School District, in SAU #2, on the second Tuesday of March?"
By signing this petition, you are affirming that you are a registered voter in the Town of Meredith.
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Now, today I will deliver the two petitions to the Meredith Town Clerk, for her inspection, scrutiny and administration, and wait to see what all happens next.

Thanks again to everyone who chose to sign!

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So yesterday on primary day, I sat outside the Community Center and collected signatures for about ten hours. What moved me the most was to see all the different people of Meredith. There was quite a number of older and injured voters who slowly walked in to vote with the assistance of their cane or walker. Moving slowly and gingerly, they all wanted to get inside to vote.

01-09-2008, 06:57 AM	#32
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,766 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 300 Thanked 1,017 Times in 740 Posts	...the perfect spot! Yesterday's primary election at the Meredith Community Center was like the perfect spot for collecting signatures for an SB2 petition, plus the weather was highly cooperative, too. I got there at about 8am, equipped with my olde rockin' chair, and rocked away for about ten hours until six o'clock, collecting a lot of signatures. Printed name, signed name, address, and date on two seperate petitions; one for town business, and one for school business. I have not yet actually counted up all the signatures yet, but there are quite a few. Later on today, I will deliver the two petitions to the Meredith Town Clerk for her inspection, scrutiny and administration. Hopefully, the petitions will pass legal scrutiny. I got my petition info from a website for NH taxpayers, and will put that website here later on. Thanks again to all the Meredith voters who chose to sign the petitions. It was a fairly easy "sell" and that presidential primary and the warm weather were the perfect spot. ..................... Here's the count. For the town petition, there's 15 1/2 pages w/ 13 voter's per page for about 200 Meredith voters, total. And , for the school petition, there's 15 pages w/ 13 voters per page for also about 200 Meredith voters. If you read the rsa, it says that 25 signatures is what's needed. As I understand it, what these petitons do is to put the two questions on a town voting ballot for a yes or no vote. ................ town petition We, the undersigned Town of Meredith registered voters respectfully request that the Town adopt the following warrant. Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 40:13 (known as SB2) to allow official ballot voting on all issues before the Town of Meredith on the second Tuesday of March? By signing this petition, you are affirming that you are a registered voter in the Town of Meredith. ....................... ....................... school petition We, the undersigned Town of Meredith registered voters respectfully request that the Town adopt the following warrant. 'Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 40:13 (known as SB2) to allow official ballot voting on all issues before the Interlakes School District, in SAU #2, on the second Tuesday of March?" By signing this petition, you are affirming that you are a registered voter in the Town of Meredith. ............ Now, today I will deliver the two petitions to the Meredith Town Clerk, for her inspection, scrutiny and administration, and wait to see what all happens next. Thanks again to everyone who chose to sign! ............... So yesterday on primary day, I sat outside the Community Center and collected signatures for about ten hours. What moved me the most was to see all the different people of Meredith. There was quite a number of older and injured voters who slowly walked in to vote with the assistance of their cane or walker. Moving slowly and gingerly, they all wanted to get inside to vote. __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake! Last edited by fatlazyless; 01-09-2008 at 08:44 AM.