Secretary of State Rejects Ballot Measure
Pierre, SD – Today, Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced that an initiated measure to legalize marijuana for medical use was rejected and did not meet the required number of signatures to be placed on the general election ballot. The sponsor turned in 16,543 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office. An initiated measure requires a minimum of 13,871 signatures from South Dakota registered voters. Once the signatures were delivered to the Secretary of State’s office, a 5% random sampling was conducted. It was determined that 54.5% or 9,019 of 16,543 signatures were valid but did not meet the minimum number required.
This is the final initiated measure to be reviewed by Secretary of State. A total of 8 measures were submitted for review. A total of 275,000 signatures were submitted among all petitions.
Those looking to challenge the Secretary of State’s rejection of a ballot measure have 30 days from the date they are rejected, which would be March 4, 2016.
Challenges to all statewide initiatives and referendums must be brought within 30 days (SDCL 12-1-13)
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I observed them collecting signatures. Can’t say this surprises me.
Bob is going to be pissed.
How incompetent does your group have to be to collect signatures and have half of them invalid? A little too much pre-collection toking, dudes?
Potheads!