Reply #14: Just from my experience my suggestion is to stake out bus stops

[roseBudd]

in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton etc. I helped with a petition against SS privatization. The guy organizing the petition drive stood on Fountain Square, I went 1 block further to the bus stop and got 3 times as many signatures in 1 hour on my lunchbreak.

Besides this bill will negatively impact the poor African American bus riders and perhaps at the same time can collect some testimonials to who will be negatively impacted.

Frame this as a lunch hour downtown worker petition gathering drive and I think you could figure out how many bus stops per city you would need. A commitment of only 1 hour of downtown lunch break time should make it easy to get volunteers.

Think of it this way. Who wants to stop to sign a petition when they are walking? At the bus stop people are waiting and they are the very people who have a vested interest in defeating this bill. Get media coverage and you could have testimonials of the who and why of who will be disenfranchised.

I don't want to be playing catchup. I don't even know how to get all the former felons informed that they can vote.