1.   Candidates must collect a majority of votes to avoid a runoff election.

2.   Candidates routinely collect three times as many signatures as are legally required, to ward off such challenges.

3.   He pointed out that the Democratic Party requires candidates to collect the signatures of just five-tenths of one percent of registered Democrats in each district.

4.   In New York, candidates collect signatures and enter primaries by district, so a candidate can run in some areas of the state and not in others.

5.   No presidential candidate has ever collected that much even over an entire primary season.

6.   That makes it harder for the candidates to collect signatures, and also helps foster the endless legal challenges for which the state is notorious.

7.   This would be done by making sure no other candidate can collect the requisite number of valid petition signatures to get on the ballot.

8.   Under current law, Republican candidates must collect thousands of signatures on nominating petitions, a prescribed number in each congressional district, to get on the ballot.

9.   Candidates must also collect signatures for nomination on their own under the revised measure.

10.   Candidates must also collect signatures for nomination on their own, under the revised measure.