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Secretary
of State Jon Husted...
Ballot
Board Meeting regarding Medical
Marijuana Amendment
COLUMBUS
– Secretary of State Jon
Husted has called a meeting of the Ohio Ballot Board for Friday,
October 21,
2011, at 1:30 p.m. in the Finan Finance Hearing Room of the Ohio
Statehouse,
located on the first floor of the Senate Building at 1 Capitol Square,
Columbus, Ohio, 43215.
As
required by Ohio law, the Ballot
Board will meet to determine whether a proposed constitutional
amendment regarding
medical marijuana consists of more than one amendment. The Ballot Board
has 10
days from the date the certification is received from the Attorney
General to
complete this task.
If
the Ballot Board concludes that it
is, in fact, one amendment then the petitioners may begin to collect
signatures
for their initiated constitutional amendment.
If however, the Ballot Board concludes that
there is more than one
amendment, then the board will divide the initiative petition into
individual
petitions containing only one constitutional amendment so as to enable
the
voters to vote on each proposal separately and certify its approval to
the
attorney general. Petitioners would then need to resubmit summaries for
each of
the individual petitions to the attorney general for certification.
Petitioners
will need to collect
385,245 signatures, which is equal to 10 percent of the total vote cast
for
Governor in 2010. As part of the total number of signatures needed to
place the
measure on the ballot, petitioners must also have collected signatures
from at
least 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties, and within each of those counties,
collected
enough signatures equal to five percent of the total vote cast for
governor in
the most recent gubernatorial election, 2010.
Secretary
Husted serves as chair of
the Ballot Board and oversees the board’s proceedings. Other members of
the
Ballot Board include: Fred Strahorn, Vice Chair; State Senator Keith
Faber;
Mark Griffin; and William N. Morgan. Ballot Board meetings are open to
the
public.
Additional
Information
Procedure
for a Citizen Initiated
Constitutional Amendment
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