Idaho voters will not get a chance to decide on an initiative to legalize medical marijuana on the November ballot, state officials have determined.
Activists with the Natural Medical Alliance of Idaho (NMAI) earlier this month announced that they had made a final submission of county-verified signatures for the cannabis measure—but the Secretary of State’s Office said on Tuesday that the “initiative did not qualify for the November ballot after failing to submit the required number of valid petition signatures, both in total number of signatures and required legislative districts.”
To be certified for the ballot, the team needed to submit signatures from at least 6 percent of registered voters as of the state’s last general election, which currently amounts to 70,725. They also needed to meet that 6 percent threshold in at least 18 of the state’s 35 legislative districts.
While the campaign submitted more than 150,000 total signatures in May, there were some recent indications that there could be an issue meeting the county-level requirement as well as potentially the statewide total.
A judge ruled last month that signatures in Minidoka County were turned in too late to be counted. Separately, some petitions for the medical cannabis measure
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