A Nebraska judge handed medical cannabis legalization advocates a major victory when she ruled that enough registered voters’ signatures on an initiative petition were valid.
Separate ballot questions legalizing medical marijuana and setting up regulated sales received more than two-thirds support from voters despite a legal challenge from state officials, who claimed that signatures they’d originally validated were suspect.
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In order to defeat the MMJ initiative in court, Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen and Attorney General Mike Hilgers had to demonstrate that roughly 3,400 signatures on the petitions qualifying those measures for the ballot were fraudulent, according to Lancaster County Superior Court Judge Susan Strong.
And “[t]he Plaintiff and Secretary are well short,” Strong wrote in her ruling Tuesday, the Associated Press
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