1.   Sufficient signatures had been collected to hold a referendum in the Crimea on independence from Ukraine.

2.   After all the signatures were collected for the petition it would be a pity to lose this service as well.

3.   A campaign to collect signatures to force a vote in the House on campaign finance reform was temporarily suspended.

4.   But a second recall campaign, against Helmut Giesbrecht, a New Democratic legislator in the coastal district of Skeena, failed to collect sufficient signatures on its petition.

5.   But much more was needed, they realized, than just collecting signatures and making polite phone calls.

6.   By continuing to collect signatures, the Reform Party can still run presidential and vice-presidential candidates in Ohio in the general election.

7.   Collecting signatures becomes even tougher when the grass-roots machinery is controlled by the state party bosses and locked up for one candidate.

8.   Collecting signatures is the least of it.

9.   D.W. Thomas, a longtime police juror, helped McDaniel collect signatures for the recall, as did Cecil Cain, her defeated opponent from the general election.

10.   Failing to collect enough signatures last year, the League redoubled its efforts to put the issue on the ballot this November.