Despite efforts to utilize volunteers to gather 1 million signatures to put a measure on the November ballot to repeal Proposition 8, one of the grassroots groups pushing the effort has acknowledged it is well under its goals and may have to use paid signature gatherers.

However, the group, Love Honor Cherish, only reported raising a little over $19,000 during a portion of 2009, which is well under what a signature-gathering firm would charge.

In a phone interview last week, John Henning, executive director of Love Honor Cherish, said the signature gathering is going "fine," but added, "we are not meeting our daily targets, and we're trying to work to get to the point where we are meeting our daily targets."