Rapid City Journal
A petition initiative to increase the minimum wage in Nebraska has met the qualifications to be voted on during the general election. Secretary of State John Gale says enough verified signatures have been submitted to add the issue to the ballot in November.
At least 80,386 signatures were required to add the petition initiative to the ballot. At least five percent of those who signed had to come from 38 of the state’s 93 counties. “In this case, 89,817 signatures were verified which was more than enough to meet the threshold,” explained Gale.
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Voters in Rapid City will decide June 7 whether to ban new digital billboards and restrict the proliferation of other billboards within city limits, but opponents are promising a legal battle. The Rapid City Council on Monday voted unanimously to accept two resident-driven initiated measures and set them for a citywide vote to coincide with the municipal election in June.
Supporters of a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana in South Dakota need to collect just over 16,000 signatures by April 6, 2010 to qualify for the ballot. A similar measure failed by just 2% in 2006.