The Elections Division announced Tuesday that the petition contained only 34,130 valid signatures of registered Portland voters. The city’s Elections Division sent 55,837 signatures to the Multnomah County Elections Division for sampling. “Only 61% of signatures in statistical samples were valid,” Deborah Scroggin, manager of the city’s Elections Division, wrote on Tuesday. According to the city elections office, many people signed the petition twice, or even three times. Rede and the city’s Elections Division have denied the campaign’s allegations.