Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative Submits Signatures
Today the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative submitted more than 167,000 signatures to place the initiative on the November ballot.
To qualify for the ballot Nebraska requires the submission of signatures from 10% of the registered voters in the state, 113,000 signatures. In addition, 5% of registered voters in 38 counties are required.
NCRI met or exceeded the state requirement in all 93 counties, making it one of the most successful petition drives in the state’s history.
UPDATE
Despite the success of the petition drive, the opponents of colorblind equality will do whatever they can to keep the measure off the ballot. As Roger Clegg noted two days ago, on The Corner, a BAMN official was quite clear about her group’s strategy:
The key to defeating the initiative is to keep it off the ballot in the first place. That's the only way we're going to win.As Clegg drily concluded, “The Left, as you know, favors democracy, power to the people, and nondiscrimination, except when it doesn’t.”