But they too now face investigations into the validity of some of the signatures they collected, election officials told the Interfax news agency.
In 1970, it began supporting the work of a political scientist from the University of Michigan named Warren E. Miller, who, for two decades, had been collecting election returns and conducting interviews with voters as part of what came to be called the American National Election Studies project.
My colleague Kelly Bulkeley had also been collecting election dreams and looking for patterns in how conservative and liberal Americans dream.
Wright, a lawyer and magazine publisher, began collecting election-year memorabilia when he was 10 and now has 1.25 million objects.
There was an earnestness that was heartwarming and quirky, kind of like people who collect presidential election buttons or Wacky Packages.
"Remember those leaflets we used to collect before her election?" he asked.
The youth protest movement, fueled by popular rap stars who rhyme about corruption and poverty amid plenty, is using social media and text messaging to collect reports of election irregularities, said Luaty Beirao, a rapper who goes by the name Ikonaklasta.
The One Million Signatures campaign has been working since before last year's election to collect signatures from Iranian men and women who oppose discriminatory laws and practices.
People get scared, newspapers exaggerate danger on A1, and finally politicians call for swift action in order to qualm their constituents' fears and to, hopefully, collect their votes come election time.
