BELLEVUE- Assistant City Attorney for Bellevue Annie Matthews confirmed Wednesday that a recent petition submitted to the city around a month ago, which intends to ban abortions within city limits, failed to garner enough signatures for passage. To proceed to the Bellevue City Council, the petition needed signatures from at least 20% of the number of legally eligible voters in the city, or around 7,812 signatures.

"According to the signature verification performed by the Sarpy County Election Commission," Matthews announced, "it was determined that 7,372 signatures were submitted. Of the 7,372 signatures received, 4,600 of them were determined to be signatures of qualified electors." Based on the Election Commission's findings, 2,772 of the signatures were determined to be from unqualified individuals.

Mark Lee Dickson, the Texas man spearheading the initiative in Bellevue, said he's leading a campaign to stake out 'Sanctuary Cities' around the country. The petition was initiated in Bellevue last August, just a week after former Gov. Ricketts announced that there wasn't enough support to call for a special legislative session to ban abortion.

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