The window to file challenges to an Oklahoma marijuana legalization ballot initiative closed on Thursday—but not before two more complaints were submitted to the state Supreme Court, for a total of four that the justices must now sort out. Meanwhile, even if those protests are dispensed with, the reform proposal’s official placement for the November election is still in question amid separate legal scrutiny over ballot printing deadlines.
Activists are hoping for a swift resolution to all of the challenges—which they called “frivolous” in a press release on Thursday—as the official ballot placement litigation proceeds. The first two, filed earlier this month, concerned the validity of signatures for the ballot measure that the secretary of state’s office certified last month.
A third, submitted on Wednesday, challenges the ballot title approved by the state attorney general. And hours before the challenge deadline, a fourth complaint was filed by a pro-reform activist who is also taking issue with the ballot title.
Plaintiffs in the third challenge—two of whom are affiliated with the Oklahoma Farm Bureau—argued that the language of the ballot title is misleading because it doesn’t adequately inform voters about five policy impacts of the proposal. For example, they say the
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