Kinky Friedman turns in 169,574 signatures today to the Texas Secretary of State. That’s more than three times the required 45,400 signatures.
Here’s some other interesting facts on the signatures from Kinky’s website:
Facts About Kinky’s Petition Drive:
More than 169,000 total signatures
At least one signature from every single county (254) in Texas
More than 3,444 individual circulators
More than 4,892 individual petition parts
90% of signatures gathered by volunteers
10% of signatures gathered by paid volunteers who committed to 500+ signatures
Paid signature collectors received $1 per signature
No outside corporations were hired for the petition drive
All signature validation took place in-house, with data entry tabulated on a custom database designed especially for this effort
Up to 6 volunteers entering data up to 14 hours per day since March 9th
