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  • Nebraska will vote on pro-pot measures despite some invalid signatures

    JOHN HANNA and MARGERY A. BECK|Sep 13, 2024

    OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska certified two ballot measures Friday to legalize medical marijuana even though the state's Republican attorney general said their supporters may have submitted at least several thousand invalid signatures, which could keep them from becoming law. Attorney General Mike Hilgers made the statement during a Zoom news conference with a local prosecutor to announce a felony charge against a local petition circulator over fraudulent signatures. A deputy sheriff said in a sworn statement that there were problems with 164 s...

  • Florida and Kansas are accusing 2 people of forging signatures for petition drives

    JOHN HANNA and MARGERY A. BECK|Jun 5, 2024

    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Florida and Kansas officials are accusing two petition circulators of forging voter signatures during campaigns to put an abortion rights measure to a vote in Florida and allow the No Labels party to put candidates on the Kansas ballot. Jamie Johnson, 47, and George Andrews III, 30, both from Dade City, Florida, in the Tampa area, were in jail Wednesday, each on $150,000 bail. Johnson was being held in Sarpy County, Nebraska, south of Omaha, and Andrews in the Tampa area. Each faces 20 felony charges in Florida, while in K...