Even their current claims of almost 2 million members rely on one-time petition signers and erroneous addresses.

According to the article, only 50% of the petition signers actually lived in Reid Hall.

Some of those requirements prohibited petition signers from using abbreviations in their signatures.

Government opponents also accused Venezuelan soldiers of harassing some would-be petition signers.

The president's adversaries, though, accuse the government and its allies of intimidating prospective petition signers.

Some petition signers gave their post office address rather than their legal voting address.

When some local officers balked, he sent letters to individual car haulers naming the locals with the highest percentage of petition signers.

The names of petition signers were posted publicly online in what became known as the Tascón List.

No one among them is actively pushing for the reforms the President and the petition signers say they want.