On July 30, a lawsuit was filed in Florida state court to test the idea of having three petitions signed simultaneously with the use of colored-code carbon-paper petition forms. A group sponsoring six city initiatives in Daytona Beach circulated its petitions in two groups of three each. To save time, voters were invited to sign each of the two packets. Each packet included three initiatives. The signature of each voter was automatically recorded on each of three petitions.

Of course, if a voter only wanted to sign one for one initiative, the circulator invited him or her to simply separate the forms, and sign only one form.

The group sponsoring the six initiatives filed its lawsuit, Striving Towards a New Daytona v City of Daytona Beach, in Volusia County Circuit Court, no. 2009-33119, because it fears that the city will reject its petitions because of the carbon-paper idea.

In 2008, the Alabama campaigns of Ralph Nader, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin, talked about applying this same 3-petition carbon-copy package to make it easier for each of the three to quickly gather the needed 5,000 signatures, but the idea was not implemented.