Like this but less funHere’s hoping your mood isn’t too tied to the daily news on R-71’s chances of making the ballot. If it is, you’re liable to be as erratic as a reality TV star. The measure–an attempt by anti-gay groups to subject domestic partnership rights to a public vote–needs 120,000 signatures from valid voters to qualify for the ballot. At first, it looked doomed. Then the Secretary of State reconsidered some signatures and it looked likely to succeed. Then even likelier.But a funny thing happened on the way to subjecting basic rights to a public vote. The measure started slipping. So its advocates accused the Secretary of State of being part of a homosexual conspiracy. Then it started slipping even more–with an error rate that once again pushed it into unlikely-to-make-the-ballot territory. But now the Secretary of State is reconsidering rejections once again–noting that some of the rejected voters are actually newly registered voters who weren’t previously showing up on the rolls. So hold on to your seats: You must be this tall to ride the R-71 roller coaster and this dumb to sign the petition.