[wwmiv]

The lack of signatures has more to do with lack of finances than lack of plausible signatories.

To run such a campaign successfully, you’d need 100k, easy, to get the 25-30k sigs you’d want for assurance it goes to ballot:

15-20k consulting and design fees
10-15k printed materials / signs
60-65k 2 organizers / 10-15 canvassers / 5 textbankers across across 3 months
5-10k targeted daily digital ads for foaming the runway for canvassers
10-15k for “canvassed: no-contact” follow-up text blasts (~10k texts / week) plumbing for digital sigs

Plus recruited volunteer labor on weekends (might get you ~1k total sigs)

Nobody with money is donating that money when it’s antithetical to their interests.

Then there’s the actual campaign… which would be another 150k on top of that.