So more than a third of their signatures were fake? LOL
More likely they were a combination of unregistered and mis-registered voters. There was a petition drive earlier this year to put an amendment for independent redistricting on the IL ballot. Over 500K signatures were submitted, and 300K were needed. A random check of 5% of the signatures showed that only 45% were valid, which meant that the petition would end up short if a full count was done. The group later withdrew from the legal fight to put it on the ballot.
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breakdown of the invalid signatures looked like this:
If CA has rules about signatures like IL, it's not surprising that a third were invalid. There's a reason that experts recommend collecting two to three times the number of signatures required. A lot of people don't know if they are registered to vote and if they are what address is their voting address, especially for those who have moved since the last time they voted.