How much your signature is worth on a Boston candidate's petition

So Im assuming its only payable once the signatures are authorized by the clerk right? On top of that do people who get duplicate signatures still get the money, like if Adam and myself both hit up some of the same people, who gets the cash?

Here is another question, why can't this mystery candidate find any college or high school kids willing to do this for FREE I have never been involved with a campaign that had to pay people for this sort of grunt work, and consider it pathetic if a candidate needs to resort to that. Obviously you pay your campaign staff, and some will collect signatures and knock on doors, but thats not their only job.

...getting paid for signatures, donations, or voter registrations aren't unusual. Nice to know what the local going rate is.

As I remember, petitioners were paid at a much higher rate for referedum drives of one sort or another. Of course, they were mainly imported pros. I recall it having been paid per VALID sig, though, so perhaps there's not such a stringent sifting process here?

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I haven't dealt with signatures in Mass, but in Cal this is entirely the norm. You need thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of signatures to get something (or someone) on the ballot, and you pay people to do it. Obviously, that's a bit of an end run around the intention.

A buck was roughly the going rate, and no, you don't have to show validity before you get paid. Of course, you're not gonna have a steady job at it if your validity rate is really low.

As usual, the monied can buy their way onto the ballot. On the plus side, this still makes ballot initiatives available to broke scruffy campaigns with activists who are willing to work -- but that's rare; most campaigns just pay. I recall collecting signatures for an initiative that I was working on (which did eventually pass), and people would say, well, I'll sign it so you can get your buck. and they were shocked, shocked!, to learn that I was doing this voluntarily because I *believed* in something.

If this wasn't considered to be shady business it would make sense to include who the signatures were for. What would the reason be for keeping that a secret? Is this a bogus post? I do not trust this sort of thing. Any thoughts?