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Volunteers in 58 Counties
California Registered Voters
This is where it always starts. You take the best ideas for what you want to see enacted and turned into law and then create a google drive document and open it up to the community for a proper debate and critique. After a dozen meetings and a few hundred edits you'll hopefully have a solid document. Granted we've already gone through this before and there are only going to be a few changes made this time. Adding back in amnesty and expungement as well as new definition for psilocybin containing products.
TodayOnce our language is ready to go we will submit it o the State of California. The State will generate a fiscal impact review to determine the theoretical cost to the state and then the State will draft the Title and Summary. The process takes about 55 days and as soon as we get it back it triggers signature collection.
May 2023We will have exactly 180 days to collect roughly 820,000 signatures in order to get this on the ballot. The total number of signatures required is based on roughly 5% of the total number of voters in the last gubernatorial election. Last time the target number was 623,212 but thankfully this time we only need to get 546,651. The reason why we go for 820,000 is because we know that 1 out of 3 signatures is going to come back invalid because either the signer isn't registered to vote, puts down the wrong address, or their handwriting is so bad it can't be read. So that is why we bump the total number of signatures collected up.
July 2023Once we have collected enough signatures we will submit them to the state for a validity check. First they will do a statistical random sampling to see if we have enough valid signatures. If we fail that test then they will do a full validity check of every single signature and that takes time. There are strict deadlines that need to be met so even if we have valid enough signatures but submit too late for the full validity check we will miss our window to be put on the ballot and our signatures will not count towards a future initiative.
January 2024Get out the vote. At this point switch from collecting signatures to strictly raising awareness that we are now on the ballot and that people should vote for us. It gets tricky here because of all the political white noise since we will be running on a parallel timeline to the Presidential election.
February 2024If you haven't voted by mail already make sure to get to a booth and vote in person. Then check your local county team channel on Slack to see what election night parties are going off in your area.
November 5, 2024If all goes well and we win the vote starting January 1st, 2025 our initiative will become active.
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