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On the Ballot walks grassroots candidates through filing, petitions, deadlines, and campaign finance, and comes with worksheets you can use the day you open them. You don’t need a party's permission to run. But, you do need to get the fundamentals right, and not doing that is where good candidates gets stopped before they start. Not on the issues, on the paperwork. A petition turned in a few signatures short; a board of elections that invalidates signatures; a filing deadline missed by a day; a committee that was never registered. All of those things can disqualify you from getting on the ballot. This guide exists to make sure that’s less likely to happen to you.
On The Ballot is written by Laura Rodriguez-Carbone, who has managed congressional and city council campaigns, worked races at every level, and run for Congress herself in Ohio's 7th District. This is not advice from a publisher or an anonymous expert. Its the conversation she would have with a friend who called and said they were thinking about running for office.
This e-book is built to use, not just read. On the Ballot comes with a full set of worksheets and templates: a filing checklist, a petition and signature tracker, a campaign calendar, a starter budget, an eligibility check, and a page of the exact questions to ask your board of elections.
Get on the ballot the right way, and give yourself a real chance to win!
A plain-language guide to filing, petitions, deadlines, and campaign finance
How to find and confirm the rules for your own race, at any level
A filing checklist and eligibility self-check
A petition and signature tracker
A campaign calendar worksheet
A starter budget template
The exact questions to ask your election authority
On the Ballot walks grassroots candidates through filing, petitions, deadlines, and campaign finance, and comes with worksheets you can use the day you open them. You don’t need a party's permission to run. But, you do need to get the fundamentals right, and not doing that is where good candidates gets stopped before they start. Not on the issues, on the paperwork. A petition turned in a few signatures short; a board of elections that invalidates signatures; a filing deadline missed by a day; a committee that was never registered. All of those things can disqualify you from getting on the ballot. This guide exists to make sure that’s less likely to happen to you.
On The Ballot is written by Laura Rodriguez-Carbone, who has managed congressional and city council campaigns, worked races at every level, and run for Congress herself in Ohio's 7th District. This is not advice from a publisher or an anonymous expert. Its the conversation she would have with a friend who called and said they were thinking about running for office.
This e-book is built to use, not just read. On the Ballot comes with a full set of worksheets and templates: a filing checklist, a petition and signature tracker, a campaign calendar, a starter budget, an eligibility check, and a page of the exact questions to ask your board of elections.
Get on the ballot the right way, and give yourself a real chance to win!
A plain-language guide to filing, petitions, deadlines, and campaign finance
How to find and confirm the rules for your own race, at any level
A filing checklist and eligibility self-check
A petition and signature tracker
A campaign calendar worksheet
A starter budget template
The exact questions to ask your election authority