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It is bend over time for the opponents of gay preference. It seems to me that the petitioners should have to pay only if they failed to get enough valid signatures, therefore wasting the states time and money. If they got enough but still have to pay that is a detriment to exercising the right to gather them.

You brought up exactly what I first thought. Too bad the other posters here just want to argue about "is queer marriage right", when this seems to be another legal screwing by the courts. The Gaystopo "challenged the validity of the sigatures", and now the petition takers have to pay for someone to "validate" the signatures??? What kind of screwed up logic is that? The only reasonable course of action is this: If some sigatures are not valid, and there are not enough valid ones to get it on the ballot, then the petitioner pays. Otherwise, those who challeneged the validity of the signatures should pay. Otherwise, anytime a petition is taken to get a ballot initiative, someone could just challenege the validity of the signatures hoping the cost will be too heavy for the petitioners.