Vikingkingq published an excellent diary here and Calitics on Wednesday and a follow-up on Thursday about this issue. I too ran into the same tactics he described at UCSB here in Orange County on Thursday afternoon.
It appears there was a statewide effort by the company collecting the signatures to hide what they were doing. Reports of this tactic have come from Davis, Santa Barbara, Berkeley and Orange County. The story that keeps coming out is that petitioners approached registered voter, made their pitch to get a signature for the children's cancer hospital initiative and then asked the voter to "sign multiple copies".
The clipboard is set up in such a way with a large rubber band, holding down the "copies", that unless you disassembled the mess, one could not tell that there other ballot initiatives under the children's cancer hospital page. They simply appear to be more signature sheets.
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