51.   They are the people who gather petition signatures not for a cause, but for a buck.

52.   They have distributed petitions in church, enlisted volunteers to gather signatures on the street and have taken up collections.

53.   This prevents trained teams of paid circulators from coming into a state to gather signatures.

54.   This is the second initiative that has gathered enough signatures to be on the November ballot.

55.   This year it is gathering signatures to put on the ballot a measure requiring the state to spend at least as much per student as the national average.

56.   They took procedural steps Tuesday that will allow them to start gathering signatures Thursday if House Speaker Newt Gingrich fails to schedule an early vote on the bill.

57.   They were reluctant to push the issue earlier this year, when signatures were being gathered for initiatives that would curb the civil rights of homosexuals.

58.   Those opponents also gathered enough signatures to place an alternative proposal on the ballot which would have further tightened the law, prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape.

59.   Voters, after gathering enough signatures on recall petitions against Commission Chairman Chris Lance, removed him from office at a special election in September.