| JAXToday: State of Florida officials have announced that no citizen-proposed constitutional amendments will be on ballots this November. That means voters will not weigh in on efforts to legalize recreational cannabis, expand Medicare, or 20 other proposals that organizations were attempting to get on the ballot through petition drives. Secretary of State Cord Byrd says none received enough valid signatures. A new Florida law makes it more difficult for amendments to reach ballots. Florida Decides Healthcare, the group pushing for Medicare expansion, decried what it called “unprecedented and punitive barriers.” Smart & Safe Florida, the group pushing for recreational marijuana, collected more than 1.4 million signatures, but the state says fewer than 800,000 were valid. Attorney General James Uthmeier is investigating the group for election fraud. (News Service of Florida) |
No Ballot Amendments in November
