Anti-Affirmative Initiative’s Spot on Nov. Ballot Appears Safe
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Rocky Mountain News: A signature gathering problem has taken an anti-affirmative action measure off the Oklahoma ballot but supporters don't believe it will knock off a similar one that qualified for Colorado's ballot. "There was a very slim margin for error," Gratz said Tuesday. "You expect a validity rate to be around 70 percent and in Oklahoma, it would've needed around 98 percent to make the ballot." The measure qualified for the Nov. 4 ballot in Colorado when backers submitted more than 128,000 signatures. Only a little more than 76,000 signatures - 5 percent of voter turnout in the last election - were required for it to qualify. Rich Coolidge, Colorado secretary of state spokesman, said there are three complaints on file where people are asking for their signatures to be removed. Chuck Taylor, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma, said their office received similar complaints from people who signed the petition and later regretted it.
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