Dear Virginia Libertarians, If you are a notary public with an unexpired commission in Virginia, the Libertarian Party needs your help!
Libertarian candidates need volunteer notaries to administer the affirmations of ballot access petitioners that they witnessed the signatures collected. Since each legal-size petition has space for 21 signatures, we can conservatively estimate that (for example) a governor or U.S. Senate campaign will need at least 750 petitions notarized, and that each U.S. House campaign will need at least 75 petitions notarized. Code of Virginia § 47.1-19 allows paid notaries to charge up to $5 per petition (or other document) notarized. Therefore, volunteer notaries can save our Libertarian candidates several thousands of dollars in notary fees, allowing them to direct those funds instead at sharing the message of liberty with fellow Virginians. ********************************************************* ACTION TO TAKE: If you are a notary interested in volunteering your services, please email [email protected] (or click <mailto:[email protected]?Subject=Volunteer_Notary> with your contact information (name, address, and phone number at which you can be reached), your notary registration number, and the date on which your commission expires. If you can help us with this, we will add you to our list of volunteer notaries (see http://lpva.com/HTML/notaries.php ) and, when it comes time for Libertarian candidates to turn in petitions to the State Board of Elections, they will contact you to arrange a time and place for petitioners to sign the petition affidavits in your presence so that you can notarize them. For information on becoming a notary, please see <https://commonwealth.virginia.gov/official-documents/notary-commissions/>the instructions at the Secretary of the Commonwealth's page. The costs are a $45 fee to the Treasurer or Virginia, plus a $10 fee to the Circuit Court. A notary's commission is for a term of four years (Code of Virginia <http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+47.1-21>§ 47.1-21). Thank you for your kind attention! ############################################################# Have an announcement you'd like to post? SCC members & many committee heads are all authorized to post; or you may send your announcements to the List Master: <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=Announcement>. ############################################################# Unsubscribe: Send an email to [email protected] with no subject and "Unsubscribe Announce" as the text. ############################################################# Libertarian Party of Virginia http://www.LPVA.com ############################################################# Want to see past messages? Check the Archive: http://www.Mail-Archive.com/[email protected]/ #############################################################
