California Counts, the Republican-led group gathering signatures for an initiative to split California's electoral votes by Congressional district, now say they are confident they'll get enough to be on the ballot.

If this initiative were to pass, it would be an enormous gift to the GOP in 2008. It could award the Republicans roughly 20 electoral votes — which would be as good as winning Ohio, and potentially swing the presidency to the Republicans in a close race.

"We're on a good pace," said Dave Gilliard, campaign manager for the group, speaking to CQ, claiming that they already have over 400,000 signatures. They need a total of 433,971 valid signatures, and are aiming as high as 700,000 in order to have room for error.

Meanwhile, opponents of the measure have asked the Los Angeles City Attorney to investigate reports that signature gatherers have been using food to buy the signatures of homeless people.