LINCOLN- The Nebraska Secretary of State’s Office has agreed to take another look at signatures submitted by a group seeking legalization of medical marijuana to determine if they should have been counted.

But the office says that even with a second look, its declaration remains that the initiative petition drive by Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana fell short of the requirements to qualify for a spot on the November ballot.

The Secretary of State’s Office announced earlier this week that the two petitions submitted by the marijuana group had each fallen about 9,000 signatures short of submitting the required 86,776 signatures of registered voters. They were declared to have failed another requirement — to submit signatures from at least 5% of registered voters in 38 of the state’s 93 counties.

Meetings and discussions over the next couple of days led to an agreement that another look would be given to some signatures that had been disqualified, according to Crista Eggers, the campaign coordinator for Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana.

“After analyzing the data from the Secretary of State’s Office, it came to our attention that not all the signatures have been put through the complete validation process.” Eggers said. “We believe that it’s essential that every signature from every Nebraskan be counted.”

She was less sure that the reconsideration would reverse the failure of the petition drive.

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