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Kanye WestThe latest effort to make the presidential vote in his home state worked … but it cost him a good chunk of the change.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Kanye’s campaign team hired an outside provider called Let The Voters Decide to collect the 2,500 signatures to vote in Illinois.
The thing is … Kanye did it with just a little more than a day off … before the Monday deadline of 5 PM.
We were told that the group immediately went to work, deploying 45 people who took to the streets in various parts of the state and accumulated enough signatures … all within 24 hours.
Our sources say they were generously paid for their efforts … Kanye dished out $ 10-12 per signature, and produced 3,178 signatures. Do the math: over $ 30k.
One of the signature collectors, Kenny MisterHe tells us that he was beaten on Sunday to request Kanye. He says he was in Detroit, but left everything to get to Springfield, IL on Monday, worked for 3 hours … and got 56 signatures at $ 10 a pop.
Kenny says he went door-to-door, asking people if they would support Kanye to be included on the ballot, but added that it didn’t mean they had to vote for him.
BTW, if you’re wondering if $ 10 per signature is a lot … it is. Rickey hendon – a former Illinois state senator who now works as a campaign consultant – tells us the standard rate is closer to $ 1-3 per signature.
Rickey also says that Kanye’s team contacted him a couple of days before Let the Voters Decide … but he turned it down.
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It could all be a moot point … Kanye missed the deadline to file in other states, and it looks like he’s focused on other issues at the moment anyway … many other issues.
