FL Amendment Short on Signatures
Due to a calculation error, proponents of a ballot initiative to amend the Florida Constitution to ban in-state same-sex marriages and the recognition of out-of-state same-sex marriages have found that they must collect an additional 20,000 in the next two weeks in order to place the initiative on the 2008 ballot.
For more on the amendment itself, see my analysis.
Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 at 10:04PM
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A proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in Florida may not make it to voters this year, after organizers -- who proclaimed a month ago they had gotten it on the November ballot -- found out Monday they haven't collected enough signatures after all. -
Backers of a proposed amendment to bar same-sex marriage in Florida are scrambling to find 20,000 signatures to get the measure on November's ballot after the Secretary of State announced Monday that a counting mistake put them well short of the required 611,000 signatures needed.
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