signature drive
Collecting voter endorsements
A signature drive is an organized effort to collect signatures, typically for a petition or ballot initiative.
Political campaigns use signature drives to qualify candidates or measures for election ballots: The group launched a signature drive to get the referendum on the November ballot.
The term implies coordinated canvassing rather than casual petition-signing.
- petitionFormal written appeal
- ballot measureVoting item for approval
- signaturesHandwritten names as authentication
- canvassingSystematic direct voter outreach
- clipboardRigid paper-holding surface
grassroots · initiative · referendum · direct democracy · volunteers · doorstep · street corner · sidewalk · deadline · registered · voters · voter registration · campaign · town hall · civic engagement · threshold · qualifying · measure
- protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, protest march, sit-in
- recall electionsrecall election, recall petition, recall vote, recall campaign, removal from office
- petitionspetition, signatures, online petition, plea, request
- referendumsreferendum, ballot measure, ballot initiative, proposition, ballot question
signature driveelection
Organized public voting
general election · vote · ballot · election day · referendum vote
signature, drive, sign, signal, signify, signification, signatory, signed, signing