Nebraska’s midsummer flurry of citizen initiatives seeking the ballot in November, including competing campaigns on abortion, spurred hundreds of requests to remove people’s signatures from petitions.

Organizers in Arizona and Nebraska said Wednesday that they turned in far more signatures than required to get ballot measures on abortion rights before voters in November’s election. In both states,

Now in the hands of the state, officials will work to verify that all submitted signatures are valid. Those that aren’t will be tossed, with the remaining total dictating whether enough signatures were collected to earn the initiative a place on Nebraska ballots in November.

Two conflicting ballot initiatives - one to expand access to abortion and one that would keep it limited to the first trimester - are poised to make it on the November ballot in Nebraska.

Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana collected signatures “until the very last moment” Wednesday before turning in more than 114,000 for each of its two petitions by mid-afternoon. The 2024