  The collapse kinetics of strongly charged polyelectrolytes in poor solvents
is investigated by Langevin simulations and scaling arguments. The rate of
collapse increases sharply as the valence of counterions, z, increases from one
to four. The combined system of the collapsed chain and the condensed
counterions forms a Wigner crystal when the solvent quality is not too poor
provided z >= 2. For very poor solvents the morphology of the collapsed
structure resembles a Wigner glass. For a fixed z and quality of the solvent
the efficiency of collapse decreases dramatically as the size of the counterion
increases. A valence dependent diagram of states in poor solvents is derived.
