READ BEFORE YOU CIRCULATE Read Before You Circulate (Required) Circulators must be 18 years of age and U.S. citizens, or 17 years old and registered to vote in Illinois.(Required) Circulators should ask potential petition signers: “Are you registered to vote at your current address in the City of Chicago?” Only people who are registered to vote at their current address in the City of Chicago should sign the petition.(Required) All petition signers must sign their name personally (a person cannot sign for their spouse, parent, child, etc.).(Required) Petition signers may use standard abbreviations in writing their address.(Required) Petition signers should write their current residence address next to their signature (encourage petition signer to include unit/apt. numbers where applicable). Discourage the use of ditto marks.(Required) All petition signatures must be obtained in the presence of the circulator (do not leave clipboards in public places for people to sign or allow a person to bring the clipboard into their house to allow other members of the household to sign outside circulator’s presence).(Required) All signatures on a single petition sheet should be obtained by the same circulator.(Required) Each petition sheet must be notarized and the notary must sign, dates, and stamp the petition sheet and write the name of the circulator after “Signed and sworn to (or affirmed) by” and not their own name.(Required) After the petition has been signed by voters, circulators should fill out the circulator affidavit completely with their current address, sign the circulator’s affidavit in the presence of a notary as soon after circulating the petition as possible, and show the notary a valid form of ID (even if notary does not ask).(Required) A circulator may sign a petition sheet they are circulating. A notary may not notarize their own signature as a circulator.(Required) No signature should be added to the petition sheet after the circulator’s affidavit is signed. The petition signer’s address should not be changed.(Required) Circulators should not fill out the “Sheet No. ___.”(Required) Circulators will be contacted with information and must return completed petitions as instructed
