Hire more signature gatherers

Hire fewer signature gatherers

Decipher handwriting

Read standard font

Rely on signers to accurately remember registered addresses

System verifies in voter registration database

Collect signatures from every willing signer

Collect signatures from only qualified signers vis-à-vis registration and geo-political boundaries.

Collect 20% to 35% more signatures than minimum as a hedge against disqualification

Collect only a number of signatures needed.

Pay for 20% to 30% more signatures than required (in a 10,000 signature petition paying for 13,000 signatures at $2.00 each = $26,000).

Pay for only a number of signatures required (in a 10,000 signature petition paying for 10,000 signatures at $2.10 each = $21,000, saving $5,000.).

Risk petition failure due to insufficient qualified signatories.

Ensure petition signatures qualify.

Risk missing the ballot.

Reach the ballot.