Petition Circulator Information
Download your petition form here!

This is where you get everything you need to be your very own PPP (Petition Passer Professional)!

1. Click here to download a pdf file of a blank petition page so you can print as many blank petitions as you want on your own printer.
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2. The petition is two-sided. If  your printer can do two-sided printing, that's great. If not, don't worry about it. The back side is an affidavit that you will need when you give us your filled out petition. It doesn't have to be on the back of the petition but it does have to be attached.

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The number one thing is to ask people to sign. Yes, there are a lot of rules (they make it complicated on purpose) but just ask people to sign and we can work out the details. ASK!
​Basics for people who sign the petition:

• By signing, you are only saying you want another ballot option in the general election.
• You need to be a registered voter in Kansas to sign the petition.
• You can be a member of any party, independent or unaffiliated.
• You can only sign once.
• By signing, you are only saying you want another ballot option in the general election.
• Signing the petition does not change your party or make you a member of the Party of the Center.
• You do not have to vote for the Party of the Center. 

Basics for people who circulate the petition:

•  To circulate a petition, a person must be 18 or older and a U.S. citizen.  The circulator does not need to be a resident of Kansas or registered to vote in Kansas. If registered to vote, a circulator can be a member of any or no party.
• A petition circulator cannot sign the petition that they are circulating. This is because they cannot witness their own signature. They must sign a petition being circulated by someone else.
• A petition page does not have to be completely filled. Each page can have just one signature.
• All signatures on each petition page must be registered in the same county.
• A circulator may have multiple petition pages with one or more for different counties. You can stand on a corner in Johnson County with pages for Johnson, Wyandotte, Miami, Douglas or whichever counties you want. If a registered Kansas voter from Rawlins County walks up and wants to sign, the circulator can pull out a new blank petition page and write Rawlins County into the county blank and get that one voter’s signature.
• A circulator must sign a notarized affidavit stating that he or she witnessed all the people signing the petitions they circulated. Notarized means signing in front of a Notary Public registered in the state of Kansas.
• The affidavit that a circulator signs is that they witnessed each person sign, not that the signers are who they say they are.
• A circulator can sign one affidavit for multiple petition pages from the same county. If a circulator has watched the signing of petitions for voters from multiple counties, they should sign a separate affidavit for each page or set of pages from a particular county.
• We need 2% of the votes cast in the last election for governor. This is about 17,400 or about 1% of registered voters. We want to get more than this amount as Secretary of State Kobach will be involved in certifying the party.
• A circulator cannot have been convicted of a felony.
• A circulator cannot pay people to sign a petition.
• A circulator cannot forge signatures.

What do I do with the petitions when I am done?
If you have found a Notary Public to handle your affidavit, you can do one of two things. Send us an email at info@partyofthecenter.org to tell us that you are ready and would like someone to pick them up. Or you can mail them (they can be folded) to:
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Party of the Center Petitions
PO BOX 1656
Lawrence, KS 66044

If you need a Notary Public, send us an email at info@partyofthecenter.org and let us know. We will tell you what you need to do.​

​What about the affidavit a circulator must sign?
The second page of our petition is labeled "Affidavit of Petition Circulator." If you have asked people to sign the petition, guess what, you are a Petition Circulator! Pretty cool huh?

Kansas state law requires a circulator to sign the affidavit with this specific language. It must be signed in front of a Notary Public. We will work to have Affidavit Parties (sounds fun, right?) in a number of counties so if you don't have access to a Notary Public don't worry. Hang on to your petition sheets and let us know at info@partyofthecenter.org that you have sheets ready to turn in. We will tell you what to do next.

If you have multiple petition pages, first of all you're awesome. Also, you don't need to sign an affidavit for every page, just for every set of pages you collected. However, if you have pages from different counties (remember each page can only have signers from one county) then you should sign an affidavit for each set of petitions for each county you have signers. We must group our petitions by county when we turn them into the Secretary of State. That office will send each county's group of petitions out to the county clerk for that county so your petitions will be separated by county.

If you are a customer of a bank, they usually will notarize things for you. Some city and county offices will also do it. All they are notarizing is that  you are who you say you are and that you signed the statement. They will ask for an ID such as a driver's licence.

When you sign the affidavit, all you are stating is that you watched the person sign the petition. You are not swearing that you know who they are or that they are qualified to sign. They told you they were and signed. The county clerks will find out if they are not qualified voters when they check the petitions against the voter registration lists.