On September 19, Viktor Yushchenko's Central Headquarters submitted one million seven hundred thousand signatures to the Central Election Commission in support of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko. The signature sheets were handed over to the Central Election Commission by campaign chief Roman Bezsmertny, deputy campaign chief Pavlo Kachur, Viktor Yushchenko's authorized representative for the nationwide electoral district Mykola Katerynchuk, and Viktor Yushchenko's representative at the CEC Yuriy Klyuchkovsky. \n \n"By this hour we have collected three and a half million signatures and we continue collecting, since for us this is a campaign effort. However, we submitted one million seven hundred thousand carefully verified signature sheets to the CEC, because we know how scrupulously they will be checked," stated Central Headquarters chief Roman Bezsmertny. \n \nHe emphasized that there are signature sheets from every city and from every village. The most signatures were collected in Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr and Volyn oblasts. "In all regions we have fulfilled the requirement of the law. There were no problems," he noted. \n \nHowever, according to Roman Bezsmertny, the legislative requirements for the formatting of signature sheets are so high that this complicates signature collection if "this is done honestly, live, and not with the help of administrative resources, the use of students and municipal services." \n