Anna Karenina
02-14-2012, 12:59 PM
Found this over on Daily Paul by JoeinMO http://www.dailypaul.com/213861/a-way-to-win-in-maine-but-must-be-done-by-today-or-tomorrow#comment-2236492
ATTENTION: If you live in Maine and your city will NOT hold a caucus, you can still get VOTES for Paul, but this is URGENT.
While state laws says you can do this until March 1st, if you want to get this done for remaining caucuses Feb 18 that WILL count in Maine GOP Caucuses that will show that Paul won, you have to do this today or tomorrow! No matter what the delegates will count.
I am not sure how many municipalities will not vote in the last Maine Caucuses Feb 18, but if there are some with no Republican Municipal committees, as a citizen of Maine and as a registered or declared Republican you can hold your own.
Step 1: Find out if there is a Republican Committee in your municipality, if not step 2.
Step 2: Create a Committee (can be a committee of 1), then Today or tomorrow create a flyer saying that there will be a Republican Caucus for President in your town and also advertise a small ad in local newspaper or nearest newspaper saying the same thing, It must have date, time, place etc. I would also get it notarized and hang a copy of the notarized flyer in your Library and Post Office at the community board. This must be done at least 3 days before the scheduled caucus. The caucus location can be anywhere, a restaurant, home, conference room in library etc.
Step 3: See if you can get a copy of the sign-in sheet that they used at the caucuses that ran Feb. 11 and use that to sign in caucus goers and match against state issued ID or voter card.
Step 4: Get like minded Ron Paul supporters to attend your caucus.
Step 5: Send in Results
This statute is so NO Maine voter is disenfranchised.
It's the last statute below.
§307§312
Title 21-A: ELECTIONS
Chapter 5: NOMINATIONS
Subchapter 1: BY POLITICAL PARTIES
Article 2: BIENNIAL MUNICIPAL CAUCUS
§311. Rules governing
A biennial municipal caucus may be held by any political party for the purpose of electing delegates to a state convention and for any other business governed by the following provisions. [2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD).]
1. Call. The caucus may be called by the chair or a majority of the members of the municipal committee of a political party. If the municipal committee fails to call a caucus, the county committee may call the caucus. At the request of that committee municipal officers shall provide available space in a public building for a caucus. A municipality may hold its caucus outside the municipality if several municipalities elect to meet on a consolidated basis or if the committee calling the caucus determines that a facility outside the municipality is more suitable.
[ 2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD) .]
2. Time. A biennial municipal caucus of any party must be held during the general election year before March 20th.
[ 2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD) .]
3. Notice. The secretary of the committee shall have a notice of the caucus published in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality at least 3 and not more than 7 days before it is to be held, or shall post a notice in a conspicuous, public place in each voting district in the municipality at least 7 days before the caucus. The notice must contain the name of the party, the time and place of the caucus and the name of the person calling it.
A. If the notice is not published as required by this subsection, the caucus is void if challenged by any voter eligible to participate in the caucus who was prejudiced by the failure to publish notice. [2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD).]
B. The secretary of the committee shall file a copy of the notice with the clerk who shall record it. [2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD).]
[ 2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD) .]
4. Procedure. The chair of the municipal committee shall open the caucus. In the chair's absence, the secretary or any resident voter enrolled in the party may open the caucus. The caucus shall elect a secretary and a chair in that order. The chair of the caucus shall then preside over the caucus and the secretary shall record the proceeding of the caucus. The caucus shall determine its own parliamentary procedure.
[ 2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD) .]
5. If no municipal committee. If there is no municipal committee, any resident voter enrolled in the party may call a special caucus for the purpose of electing the committee following the notice procedure of subsection 3.
UPDATE: Many of you are asking where this came from?
Its directly off the Maine SOS website - this is state law and trumps any GOP interal stuff and can't be changed unless State legislature votes to do so.
Here ya go
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/21-A/title21-...
List of County and City GOP Committees
So if your city is not listed or doesn't caucus with your county, then YOU CAN DO everything above.
http://www.mainegop.com/county-and-town-committees/
The easy way to tell if your city caucuses with a county is just to look at the election results that everyone is posting on a county basis, it will list all the cities that participated via that County caucus - any that are not listed are fair game.
ATTENTION: If you live in Maine and your city will NOT hold a caucus, you can still get VOTES for Paul, but this is URGENT.
While state laws says you can do this until March 1st, if you want to get this done for remaining caucuses Feb 18 that WILL count in Maine GOP Caucuses that will show that Paul won, you have to do this today or tomorrow! No matter what the delegates will count.
I am not sure how many municipalities will not vote in the last Maine Caucuses Feb 18, but if there are some with no Republican Municipal committees, as a citizen of Maine and as a registered or declared Republican you can hold your own.
Step 1: Find out if there is a Republican Committee in your municipality, if not step 2.
Step 2: Create a Committee (can be a committee of 1), then Today or tomorrow create a flyer saying that there will be a Republican Caucus for President in your town and also advertise a small ad in local newspaper or nearest newspaper saying the same thing, It must have date, time, place etc. I would also get it notarized and hang a copy of the notarized flyer in your Library and Post Office at the community board. This must be done at least 3 days before the scheduled caucus. The caucus location can be anywhere, a restaurant, home, conference room in library etc.
Step 3: See if you can get a copy of the sign-in sheet that they used at the caucuses that ran Feb. 11 and use that to sign in caucus goers and match against state issued ID or voter card.
Step 4: Get like minded Ron Paul supporters to attend your caucus.
Step 5: Send in Results
This statute is so NO Maine voter is disenfranchised.
It's the last statute below.
§307§312
Title 21-A: ELECTIONS
Chapter 5: NOMINATIONS
Subchapter 1: BY POLITICAL PARTIES
Article 2: BIENNIAL MUNICIPAL CAUCUS
§311. Rules governing
A biennial municipal caucus may be held by any political party for the purpose of electing delegates to a state convention and for any other business governed by the following provisions. [2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD).]
1. Call. The caucus may be called by the chair or a majority of the members of the municipal committee of a political party. If the municipal committee fails to call a caucus, the county committee may call the caucus. At the request of that committee municipal officers shall provide available space in a public building for a caucus. A municipality may hold its caucus outside the municipality if several municipalities elect to meet on a consolidated basis or if the committee calling the caucus determines that a facility outside the municipality is more suitable.
[ 2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD) .]
2. Time. A biennial municipal caucus of any party must be held during the general election year before March 20th.
[ 2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD) .]
3. Notice. The secretary of the committee shall have a notice of the caucus published in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality at least 3 and not more than 7 days before it is to be held, or shall post a notice in a conspicuous, public place in each voting district in the municipality at least 7 days before the caucus. The notice must contain the name of the party, the time and place of the caucus and the name of the person calling it.
A. If the notice is not published as required by this subsection, the caucus is void if challenged by any voter eligible to participate in the caucus who was prejudiced by the failure to publish notice. [2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD).]
B. The secretary of the committee shall file a copy of the notice with the clerk who shall record it. [2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD).]
[ 2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD) .]
4. Procedure. The chair of the municipal committee shall open the caucus. In the chair's absence, the secretary or any resident voter enrolled in the party may open the caucus. The caucus shall elect a secretary and a chair in that order. The chair of the caucus shall then preside over the caucus and the secretary shall record the proceeding of the caucus. The caucus shall determine its own parliamentary procedure.
[ 2005, c. 387, §3 (AMD) .]
5. If no municipal committee. If there is no municipal committee, any resident voter enrolled in the party may call a special caucus for the purpose of electing the committee following the notice procedure of subsection 3.
UPDATE: Many of you are asking where this came from?
Its directly off the Maine SOS website - this is state law and trumps any GOP interal stuff and can't be changed unless State legislature votes to do so.
Here ya go
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/21-A/title21-...
List of County and City GOP Committees
So if your city is not listed or doesn't caucus with your county, then YOU CAN DO everything above.
http://www.mainegop.com/county-and-town-committees/
The easy way to tell if your city caucuses with a county is just to look at the election results that everyone is posting on a county basis, it will list all the cities that participated via that County caucus - any that are not listed are fair game.