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.
Submitted by joeinmo on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 10:32While 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.
















Offtopic but MAINE related. I started another thread if interest
Maine resident reviewing Maine Criminal Code Title 17A. I'm not an attorney, but came across these two laws I believe Charlie Webster may have broken:
(1)17A, §608 OFFICIAL OPPRESSION (For harming Ron Paul, both financially and politically)
1. A person is guilty of official oppression if, being a public servant and acting with the intention to
benefit himself or another or to harm another, he knowingly commits an unauthorized act which purports
to be an act of his office, or knowingly refrains from performing a duty imposed on him by law or clearly
inherent in the nature of his office.
[ 1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW) .]
2. Official oppression is a Class E crime.
[ 1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW) .]
SECTION HISTORY
1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW
(2) 17-A 609. MISUSE OF INFORMATION (He speculated on TV Romnney or Paul would be within 200 votes)
1. A person is guilty of misuse of information if, being a public servant and knowing that official
action is contemplated, or acting in reliance on information which he has acquired by virtue of his office or
from another public servant, he:
A. Acqiures or divests himself of a pecuniary interest in any property, transaction or enterprise which
may be affected by such official action or information; or [1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW).]
B. Speculates or wagers on the basis of such official action or information; or [1975, c. 499, §1
(NEW).]
C. Knowingly aids another to do any of the things described in paragraphs A and B. [1975, c.
499, §1 (NEW).]
[ 1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW) .]
Maybe we can get some legal eyes on this.
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***********Ron Paul for POTUS 2012***********
*************Obama Is A Communist!************
**********Repeal the 17th Amendment**********
Double the size of the House of Representatives
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Keep those votes a comin'!
If only Paul supporters do this, there will be a natural bias to the outcome...
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Way to go Joe!
Nice work.
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
Great Job
Keep in mind that sometimes states have laws on the books that have been overturned, as in CA where they say we have to let voters vote in our primaries, even though my party does not use the popular vote, but has delegates do the nominating. We won in court, but it's still on the books, I'm told.
You can reach voters in California, here: http://consequeries.com/California-voter-guide.php
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Here you go, its from Maine SOS
Of course all states have different rules, so check each SOS.
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/21-A/title21-...
added some more info via the main post above
Great idea and info. Did you
Great idea and info. Did you post this over at Ron Paul Forums yet?
No
I am not a member, also would like someone to post on Facebook, I do not have an account
Okay, I'll post it over there
Okay, I'll post it over there if it is okay with you that I copy and paste your post here or put a link.
You can find this information in.........
The book, Robert's Rules of Order or you can go to the website: WWW.ROBERTSRULESOFORDER.COM
No - this has nothing to do with Roberts Rules
This is a Maine Law
Its a law that allows the people of Maine to vote, even if a municipality wasn't going to have a caucus because there was not a GOP or Democrat committee for that municipality.
Its a law that try to make it where voters are not disenfranchised.
Challenges?
Wait, does this mean that Ron Paul voters could challenge the last-minute Romney caucuses if they were unable to attend?
yes
but only if those last minute caucuses did not advertise the correct way or in time.
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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." -- Thomas Paine
should Mass-FAX that to Chucky Webster's office
with the title: Chuck Webster, You WILL COUNT ALL OUR BALLOTS, by Law!
go go go ME R3VOL!!!
do it! do it! do it!
Predictions in due Time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDisyWkIBM
"Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy." - Dr. Ronald Ernest Paul
would be funny
:)
Hey where did you find this
Hey where did you find this info? We may need this in other states...
Here you go, its from Maine SOS
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/21-A/title21-...
oh thanks. I get the idea
oh thanks. I get the idea thanks alot!
Bump for last minute action!
Wouldn't this screw them all up!
"They used to come get you and lock you up because you were insane, Now they come get you and lock you up because you are sane"
oops
forgot important step, fixed!
excellent!
If the info is correct, that pretty impressive, bro--thanks!
thanks
Here you go right off the Maine SOS website
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/21-A/title21-...
These are State rules, not GOP rules, so that can't be changed unless by State Legislature.