<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Petitioning will be Wednesday, Oct 14 from 1:00 - 4:00pm outside the State House, General Hooker entrance.</div><div><br></div><div>Ranked Choice voting would allow voters to vote their hopes, not their fears. By allowing voters to rank their choices, it would eliminate the possibility of two or more candidates splitting the vote and electing another candidate with less than 50% support. In short, this reform would be a major step forward for democracy, political accountability, and allowing more voices into the debate. But to get there we first need to collect 100,000 raw signatures by November 18th! Once the question is on the ballot, we'll have until November 2010 to convince voters about the value of this reform.</div><div><br></div><div>Our tiny staff at Citizens for Voter Choice is working long hours every day to recruit volunteers that can help us collect signatures. With a little more than five weeks to go, your help is urgently needed! Please contact us so we can match you up with a team of volunteers in your neighborhood who are collecting signatures at shopping malls, grocery stores, and special events across Massachusetts. If you're shy about approaching strangers to sign, our organizers can help you develop the confidence to be a superb petitioner!</div><div><br></div><div>We'll be collecting signatures tomorrow (Wednesday) from 1:00pm to about 4:00pm outside the State House (<a href="https://webmailcluster.perfora.net/xml/webmail/mailContent;jsessionid=A3D14ACB637D902B09E8B7833A626537.TC136a#" onclick="javascript:window.open('http://www.sec.state.ma.us/trs/trsdir/diridx.htm', 'linkWin', 'scrollbars=yes, location=yes, menubar=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=yes')">http://www.sec.state.ma.us/trs/trsdir/diridx.htm</a>). We will be at the General Hooker entrance, which is to the right of the big steps and gate. Lots of civic minded people are walking in and out during the day, so this is a great place to collect signatures and practice talking about voter choice. I'll be there with extra materials to help out. We want to build the State House into a regular petitioning site.<br><br>Then after dinner we will walk to our office for our evening phone bank at Encuentro Cinco (33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Chinatown) from 5:00 to 9:00pm. We can give you a list of people from your neighborhood to call through and help you build your own team! Check out the upcoming events calendar on our website. <a href="http://www.voterchoiceMA.org">www.voterchoiceMA.org</a> for house parties, phone banks, and many great petitioning opportunities!<br><br>Please call me to confirm if you can come. Thanks! <br><br></div><div><br></div><div>~Matthew Andrews <br></div><div> <a href="mailto:matt@voterchoiceMA.org">matt@voterchoiceMA.org</a></div><div> 617-633-1857 (c)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.voterchoiceMA.org">www.voterchoiceMA.org</a></div></body></html>