{"id":31219,"date":"2021-05-25T08:35:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31219"},"modified":"2021-05-25T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T12:35:06","slug":"the-delicate-ballet-of-mississippi-ballot-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31219","title":{"rendered":"The Delicate Ballet of Mississippi Ballot Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/marijuana-ballot-initiatives-mississippi-south-dakota-1171659\/\">Her lawsuit hinged<\/a> on the state constitution\u2019s requirement that ballot initiatives be filed with signatures from five congressional districts. It would have been pretty difficult for the Initiative 65 campaign to gather these signatures, though, as the state has only had four such districts since the 2000 Census. The constitution\u2019s language around ballot initiatives, which was written prior to that redistricting, had never been updated. \u201cIt was almost surreal, as if it didn\u2019t happen,\u201d Newburger says of learning about the challenge ahead of the election. \u201cA plethora of initiatives had been filed already and never challenged. I thought we had done everything right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They had done everything right, the court determined, except conjuring signatures from a congressional district that hasn\u2019t existed for over 20 years. Considering the state\u2019s current legislative map, the decision read, the ballot initiative process \u201cno longer functions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rookie mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her lawsuit hinged on the state constitution\u2019s requirement that ballot initiatives be filed with signatures from five congressional districts. It would have been pretty difficult for the Initiative 65 campaign to gather these signatures, though, as the state has only had four such districts since the 2000 Census. The constitution\u2019s language around ballot initiatives, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31220,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions\/31220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}