LINCOLN- Crista Eggers, in a letter to Secretary of State Bob Evnen, said Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana has yet to receive a final determination of whether it came close to submitting the required number of signatures and, because of that, has now lost the ability to legally challenge the count.

State law requires that groups file contests to a count within 10 days of submitting their signatures, a time period that has now expired.

The medical marijuana group was informed Aug. 22 that it had failed to turn in sufficient signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

After proponents raised some concerns that some signatures had not been counted, the Secretary of State’s Office agreed Aug. 24 to conduct an additional review. However, at that time, state officials insisted that the review wouldn’t make a difference in their determination that the petition drive fell short.

Officials with Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana, meanwhile, have said they weren’t quite sure about that. They maintain that the additional review of signatures might have pushed their court close enough to the number required to lead to a legal challenge.

The ballot for the November election was finalized on September 16th, meaning it’s too late to add items such as the medical marijuana question.

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