1.   To qualify for air time, volunteers for a particular candidate would have to collect a certain number of voter signatures.

2.   In order to validate voter signatures for their candidates, campaign aides filled out applications and got commissioned as justices of the peace.

3.   Sandra Seegars, coordinator of the Committee to Recall Mayor Barry, said the budget bill had only helped her group collect more voter signatures.

4.   Some were thrown out, but only if they had more serious violations of state law, like a missing voter signature.

5.   Some were thrown out, but only if they had other disqualifications according to state law, like a missing voter signature.

6.   They objected to the slightest of flaws, including partial addresses of witnesses, illegible witness signatures and slight variations in voter signatures.

7.   But the Central Electoral Commission rejected the initiative on Thursday, saying the party had failed to gather enough valid voter signatures backing the plebiscite.

8.   Court judges said the election commission violated procedures for checking voter signatures, and refused to revise the rulings despite an appeal by the commission.

9.   He was one of only two opposition candidates who gathered the number of voter signatures needed for registration.

10.   Supporters of Moroz, who heads the moderate leftist Socialist Party, earlier complained of obstruction through bribery and intimidation while collecting voter signatures needed for registration.