Lawsuit: Ballot rewrite on medical marijuana misleading
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s rewrite of a proposed ballot question on medical marijuana is intentionally misleading and could confuse people into thinking they were voting to fully legalize marijuana in the state, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The lawsuit was filed with the state Supreme Court on behalf of Oklahomans for Health, a group that gathered enough signatures to have the question placed before voters.
“Thousands and thousands of signatures were collected from voters of Oklahoma,” attorney David Slane said after he filed the lawsuit. “No elected official has the right to rewrite these ballots in such a way that he would try to unfairly influence voters. Scott Pruitt has a habit, a pattern of doing this.”
Slane said he believes the rewrite was crafted in such a way as to encourage Oklahoma voters to reject it.