End of EPIC Petition Drive
Today it is with great disappointment that I must report that the EPIC Option Consumption Tax team did not meet the required signature count to place our two initiatives for constitutional amendments on the November general election ballot. While the team met the first goal of securing signatures from at least five percent of registered voters in 38 counties, the team fell short of the second requirement of securing signatures from ten percent of the registered voters statewide.
I would like to express my gratitude to the many volunteers who worked tirelessly with determination and self-sacrifice in order to put these two ballot initiatives on the November ballot. In order to meet the second requirement, these volunteer petition circulators needed to acquire a total of 123,190 valid signatures. That is a nearly impossible feat to accomplish without paid circulators. The last time that an all-volunteer team managed to place a ballot initiative on the ballot for the general election was back in 1966!
