Is that even possible?

Earlier today I was sitting at Lux, a coffee shop on Central Avenue with amazing coffee and all the atmosphere you want. There's a great cross-section of hip downtowners and professionals that everyone fits in. At the meeting I was told that the Secretary of State announced that TIME and Medical Choice Arizona would not make the November ballot due to low validity rates for collected signatures.

In a conversation with a high ranking official at the Maricopa County Recorders office of Elections I confirmed the rate of invalid signatures-48.7%. This number is perplexing for a couple of reasons:

1. I have never been a part of a campaign that didn't require some level of quality assurance prior to payment for signatures collected. Random samples and weekly checks could have easily eliminated this problem.
2. The signature gatherers were some how able to collect a higher rate of invalid signatures than the percentage of qualified electors in Maricopa County. Among all Maricopa County residents qualified to register to vote 59% are actually registered. How is that even possible?

This isn't even the end of this fiasco. Sources tell Stylitics that other troubled campaigns include No New Home Tax, Our Land, Our Schools, and the anti-equal opportunity Repeal of Affirmative Action. Arizona could end up with very few ballot initiatives on the November ballot. What will voters do with these newly shortened ballots that only take a few minutes to understand?