The Nebraska Examiner
Nebraska’s chief election official and top prosecutor have questioned the validity of more than half of the signatures already validated on each of the state’s two medical cannabis petitions for the November election.
Attorney General Mike Hilgers, in a legal filing Friday on behalf of Secretary of State Bob Evnen, told a Lancaster County District Court judge that an ongoing investigation “casts serious doubt regarding the ultimate validity of approximately 49,000 signatures” on two medical cannabis petitions.
“In the aggregate, the petition circulator fraud and notary malfeasance described taints — strips the presumption of validity — from tens of thousands of submitted signatures submitted by the Sponsors,” Hilgers wrote.
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