41.   Organizers say the culprit was the company hired to collect signatures by the backers of the marriage initiative and, separately, by the Save Our Horses campaign.

42.   Opponents noted that many people felt pressured to sign since signatures were collected by local committees used to keep tabs on neighborhood residents.

43.   Perot called on veterans, senior citizens, ministers, small-business owners, community leaders and others to start collecting signatures.

44.   She charged that another election worker collected signatures while on parole.

45.   She immediately started to collect signatures in a petition to push for the plan to construct a hospital.

46.   She says reaction has been mostly favorable, although there is a grassroots group collecting signatures for a referendum to put the issue on the ballot in November.

47.   So they collected enough signatures to put a measure on the May ballot that would protect those washes, and any acquired in the future, from development.

48.   Since then, the Teamsters have collected enough signatures to request National Labor Relations Board monitored elections at eight FedEx locations.

49.   Still, McDaniel and others soon began collecting signatures for a recall election.

50.   Steve Forbes, the publishing magnate and Republican candidate, is paying for several hundred petition carriers to collect signatures in New York.