Members of a group seeking to get a vote of city residents on the recently passed domestic partners ordinance are using electronic means as well as personal outreach to try to come up with the 4,500 names of valid city voters required.
The group has set up a website at www.itsyourvotetn.com
It allows citizens:
To download the Petition click here
To download the Ordinance Fact Sheet click here
To download Instructions for Completing Petition click here
To download all three click here
The website said for those who want to sign the petition in person, there will be several sites set up.
A list of those sites has not yet been posted.
The group has 14 days in which to produce the names on the petitions.
The Election Commission, which approved the petition at a special meeting on Wednesday morning, will hold a regular monthly meeting on Dec. 4. Election Administrator Charlotte Mullis-Morgan said she does not expect to have all the petitions verified by that time.
She said she expects that Election Commission action on the petitions would come at a later meeting.
If the results are approved by the Election Commission, it would set up a vote of city residents in August 2014 on whether or not to approve the ordinance.
Heading the drive are Mark West and April Eidson of Citizens for Government Accountability.