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How To Circulate a Petition
** This is an official paper petition that will get this issue onto the ballot and requires your handwritten signature to be valid (not online). This process does not require the legislature or governor to implement.
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Video (3 minutes): Introduction To Signature Gathering​​​​​​​
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Video (5 min): How-To Circulate Petitions at an Event
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Video (5 min): How-To Circulate a Petition in Detail
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Printable Handouts:
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​How-To Circulate a Petition
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​Circulator, watch as each voter signs. You may instruct:
PRINT clearly.
PRINT your county first.
Spell out town and county (rather than "Jeffco", print "Jefferson").
Include middle initial.​
Stay within the lines (squares).
Sign like you typically sign your ballot (or driver's license).
Residential address should match voter registration with the Secretary of State (can check online).
If the signer makes a mistake, they may draw one line through the mistake and write correction within the box. If there is not room within the box, they may draw one line through the entire entry and go to the next set of boxes. The Circulator may not alter anything that the signer writes.
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Circulator, once petitions are filled, notarize the back page:
Wait to write on the Notary page until all signatures are collected and you are in front of the Notary.
Read the instructions on the back page carefully.
Make sure the Notary writes their title as “Notary Public” or “Clerk”,
Notary must have an active commission.
The date signed by the Notary and Circulator must match.
The Notary Affidavit must remain attached to the packet in its original state.
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​Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up ... And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, 12)
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But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling. And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing. He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth. Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will. (2 Timothy 2:23-26)
