61.   While Valley Vote had gathered enough signatures to initiate a mandatory secession study, the numbers left no cushion against possibly invalid names.

62.   Within weeks, activists were gathering signatures to banish the tests.

63.   Yet a handful of enraged merchants and hundreds of residents who want to save the mall gathered signatures to get the issue on the ballot.

64.   Protesters on Sunday gathered signatures in support of keeping the cross.

65.   A controversial emigre businessman, Stanislaw Tyminski, who had announced he was running for president, failed to gather enough signatures and did not register with the commission.

66.   A group consisting of powerful regional leaders and businessmen who nominated Putin this week has said it would gather signatures well ahead of the deadline.

67.   Alliance members gathers signature for Christmas cards to be sent to dissidents.

68.   Azamat was trying to gather signatures for a referendum on holding a new presidential election, Svoik said.

69.   Barnes said the group would begin gathering signatures on a petition asking Parliament to hold another referendum.

70.   But supporters of President Michal Kovac gathered enough signatures to have their demand for direct presidential election put on the ballot.