Is the Oregon Secretary of State’s office unfairly disqualifying marijuana legalization signatures? Why do two marijuana initiatives get 52% validity while an obscure real estate tax amendment gets 77%?
Is the Oregon Secretary of State’s office unfairly disqualifying marijuana legalization signatures? Why do two marijuana initiatives get 52% validity while an obscure real estate tax amendment gets 77%?
With just 63,804 valid signatures, OMPI has only 54.87% of the 116,284 valid signatures needed to put the amendment on the November ballot. Activists have less than three weeks to collect 52,480 more signatures. With a turn-in validity of 52.15%, that really means another 100,633 signatures are needed.
Oregonians may have the opportunity to vote on two initiatives to legalize the use of marijuana in the 2012 election. Oregon would join Washington and Colorado, states that have already qualified legalization for the ballot, making the first time in US history that three states will place the issue before voters.
