Election Day Efforts

Our hoped for Election Day 'captive audience' idea to collect signatures at the polling stations proved problematic. While we have argued the case with the Elections office that we are not in fact 'electioneering', (Mayor Tavares is not on the ballot), they have sent us maps of a 200' perimeter around all the polling stations where 'electioneering' is prohibited. While legally this is invalid in our case, we do not want to put anyone in the position of having to argue this case in public with any hostile opponents on site, nor create a potentially heated situation with uninformed election officials or law enforcement - not to mention how it may reflect negatively on the effort overall.

So, if anyone does want to go to their local polling station tomorrow to collect signatures they can of course do so, but we would ask that you first become fully informed and get the respective map from our office or the elections office at the County Clerk showing the 200' perimeter. Our purpose and goal is conduct this effort in the most responsible and effective way and not put any one in harms way. So we do encourage everyone to continue collecting signatures within their own communities, however the polling stations on election day will not offer the opportunity we had hoped for given the 'misunderstanding' of the elections office - which unfortunately can not be fully addressed given the time constraints.

Please do email recalltavares@gmail.com with any questions and keep in mind that we still have 20 days to collect signatures and write letters to the papers. It is possible! Forward the blog and email to your email lists