Idaho’s top elections official is explaining his determination that a campaign for an initiative to legalize medical marijuana did not submit enough valid voter signatures for the measure to appear on the November ballot. He also said that possible illegal petitioning conduct has been referred to the State Police for “review and potential criminal investigation.”
Secretary of State Phil McGrane (R) wrote in a letter to the campaign on Monday that his office received “received numerous complaints concerning the petition process” for the marijuana initiative—adding that “even under the most favorable assumption” that every petition sheet turned in was timely filed and that every submitted signature was valid, activists still wouldn’t have met minimum requirements.
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.
“The petition contains no more than 58,024 county-certified signatures and meets the six-percent legislative-district threshold in only thirteen (13) districts. It is therefore 12,701 signatures short of the 70,725- signature statewide requirement and five
Read full article on Marijuana Moment
