Medicaid expansion gets enough signatures to appear on November ballot (NE)
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Emily Nitcher
Medicaid expansion will appear on the November general election ballot, Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale announced on Friday.
County election officials finished reviewing the 136,791 signatures submitted as part of the petition to expand Medicaid eligibility.
Of those, 104,477 signatures were certified as valid, for a 74 percent acceptance rate, Gale said.
“After careful review by our counties, I can confirm that the statutory requirements for valid signatures have been met,” Gale said.
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....State Sen. Lydia Brasch of Bancroft and former State Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial filed a lawsuit in Lancaster County District Court in July, asking for the proposal to be declared “invalid and legally insufficient” and ordered off the ballot.
They argue, among other things, that the expansion proposal contains more than one subject, is in violation of the Nebraska Constitution and does not properly disclose the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest as a petition sponsor.
The case was filed shortly after leaders of Insure the Good Life submitted more than 135,000 signatures on the petition seeking to expand Medicaid.
District Judge Darla Ideus heard arguments in the case Monday and said she would decide the case as soon as possible. State officials must certify issues and candidates for the November ballot by Sept. 14.
