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ResponsibleOhio falls short on signatures, has 10 days to collect more

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 07/21/2015 - 09:44

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Pro-pot group ResponsibleOhio fell more than 29,000 signatures short of the number required to qualify its marijuana legalization issue for the November ballot, but will have 10 days to make up the difference.

To qualify for the ballot, ResponsibleOhio must collect at least 305,591 valid signatures of registered Ohio voters and meet a certain threshold in 44 of Ohio's 88 counties.

Of the 660,190 signatures tallied by the secretary of state's office, about 42 percent -- 276,082 -- were verified as valid by county boards of election. ResponsibleOhio had reported last month it submitted 695,273 signatures.

The political action committee plans to challenge the boards' count, which they say excluded more than 40,000 signatures.

ResponsibleOhio met the county requirement, collecting signatures equal to at least 5 percent of the number of votes cast in the 2014 gubernatorial election in 73 counties.

Additional signatures from the 10-day "cure period"...

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