As Florida officials defend their decision to invalidate tens of thousands of signatures for a proposed marijuana legalization ballot initiative, a new poll reaffirms that a majority of Floridians want to see the reform enacted.
The Smart & Safe Florida campaign behind the cannabis initiative has found itself fighting in multiple court cases in hopes of giving voters another chance to decide on legalization. That currently involves a case challenging state officials over the invalidation of signatures from inactive voters and those collected by non-residents.
While the signature count was recently reset to zero by the state Division of Elections, the marijuana campaign hasn’t abandoned the lawsuit, urging the state Supreme Court to intervene. And on Monday, the division and secretary of state’s office submitted a brief urging the justices to deny Smart & Safe Florida’s motion for a discretionary review into the controversy.
“Discretionary review is unwarranted,” the officials said in the brief, which was first reported by Law360.
“First, the First District’s opinion does not meet any of the criteria for discretionary jurisdiction in Article V, Section 3(b)(3) of the Florida Constitution. Second, the decision below is plainly correct: the Secretary has statutory authority to provide written direction
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