Gay adoption ban falls short of signatures, has 30-day extension
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The Family Council Action Committee fell about 4,000 valid signatures short but will have another 30 days to make up the difference, which Family Council Executive Director Jerry Cox said should not be difficult."In fact, we've already been gathering signatures, which is permitted under the law, while they've been reviewing them," Cox said.
Supporters need 61,794 signatures to get the measure on the ballot. Secretary of State Charlie Daniels' office certified that 57,888 of the signatures the group submitted in were valid and came from registered voters. Cox said about 4.5 percent of the signatures the group turned in were disqualified because of errors by notaries. Of the remaining signatures, 91.3 percent were valid, he said.
Over the next month, the group's strategy is to redeem the signatures disqualified because of the notaries and gather an additional 10,000 signatures, Cox said. The group will turn again to large churches to gather many of the remaining signatures, he said.
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