The Public Unions are running radio spots here in Los Angeles, trying to scare people into not signing petitions. They are trying to make people think they are identity theft scams. Of course, the Unions have no trouble getting their petitions circulated by goons, or simply having their pet legislators rubber stamp things for them.
They've also got union thugs (SEIU purple shirts) intimidating gatherers and would-be signers.
We saw in a popular education reform signature gathering effort earlier this year, they undertook a broad campaign of fraud which ultimately sunk the initiative with duplicative and fake signatures.
For CPR, the Lincoln Club is paying a third party to verify each signature immediately before final the submission in order to weed out and detect widespread fraud.