Sign Petitions tonight at 807 Garden Street Tuesday August 7th from 7-9pm
In an effort to help with this drive if you are a registered voter in Hoboken and reside here currently (or even if you are not registered) feel free to stop by at 807 Garden Street tonight between 7-9pm and sign both petitions. If I am not outside ring buzzer #6 and I will come down. Alternately you can call me at 917-543-1187 or email me kurt.gardiner@gmail.com. In signing both petitions you simply allow them to get on the ballot and let the people decide if we move elections to November and/or eliminate the unnecessary run off elections. Hopefully some of you will find my midtown location convenient.
Also Vijay Chaudhuri is available if you are located downtown.
Vijay is one of the very active petition drive volunteers and is willing to come to your home to get your signature. Reach out to him at vijay.chaudhuri@gmail.com if my location is too far.
As reported previously on MSV....
November petition effort will let the Hoboken people
decide when municipal elections are held
A petition that is circulating recently proposes a November referendum this fall giving voters in the coming presidential election a choice on when to hold Hoboken municipal elections. Those elections are currently scheduled for May next spring.
If approved, the referendum will move municipal elections scheduled from May to later in the fall in November.
Separately, a second petition proposes ending runoff elections eliminating a costly expenditure for both taxpayers and candidates. Three at-large council seats and the mayor would be affected in any switch likely decided this November by Hoboken voters. If voters approve the measures, their terms would be extended in the one time switch from May to November next year.
Sign Petitions tonight at 807 Garden Street August 6th from 7-9pm
In an effort to help with this drive if you are a registered voter in Hoboken and reside here currently (or even if you are not registered) feel free to stop by at 807 Garden Street tonight between 7-9pm and sign both petitions. If I am not outside ring buzzer #6 and I will come down. Alternately you can call me at 917-543-1187 or email me kurt.gardiner@gmail.com. In signing both petitions you simply allow them to get on the ballot and let the people decide if we move elections to November and/or eliminate the unnecessary run off elections. Hopefully some of you will find my midtown location convenient.
The petitions seek two important things:
1. Move the Hoboken municipal election from May to the general November election; and
2. Eliminate the run-off election, with the highest vote-getters being declared the winners.
These are petitions whose time has come:
1. Increase voter turnout! By having the election in November, it will encourage greater voter turnout. People know that voting in general elections in November are important, and the bigger the turnout, the fairer the election.
2. Reduce voter fatigue! Never again, will we have so many elections in a single year!
3. Reduce costs to taxpayers! By consolidating elections, we will save the taxpayers money. Each election costs more than $75,000. This year, the Board of Education elections were moved to November. Let's keep the momentum going and move the municipal elections to November too!
4. Reduce the costs to the candidates! By having not just one, but two municipal elections (the first round and the run-off), the costs are extraordinary. As a result, too often the candidates need to be independently wealthy, or beholden to special interests that expect payback after election day.
The deadline is looming and petitions are due on August 15th and about 1500 signatures are needed to ensure there is the correct number of approved petition signatures for both petitions.
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