An Ohio marijuana legalization campaign is just 679 valid signatures short of putting its initiative on the November ballot, sate officials say, but organizers now have 10 additional days to make up the difference to qualify.
The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol (CTRMLA) turned in more than 220,000 signatures earlier this month. But the secretary of state’s office said in a letter to the campaign on Tuesday that only 123,367 were verified, several hundred short of the 124,046 signature requirement for ballot measures.
In positive news for CTRMLA, however, the state says that activists did successfully meet a separate county threshold. That rule mandates that petitions for ballot measures must have signatures equaling at least 1.5 percent of the vote in the last gubernatorial election in a minimum of 44 counties. The cannabis campaign met that threshold in 49 counties.
The secretary of state’s office advised that “petitioners are entitled to 10 additional days from the issuance of this notification to file additional valid signatures.”
Tom Haren, CRMLA spokesperson, said in a press release on Tuesday that “it looks like we came up a little short in this first phase, but now we have 10 days to find just 679
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