Not Gonna Go For It

If your Republican Gubernatorial Candidates have a better Gay Rights record than most of the US's Dems what do you think's gonna happen?

Gay-marriage foes' petitions falling short on valid signatures

By Deanna Belland Associated Press Published July 4, 2006

An early review shows gay marriage opponents don't have enough valid signatures to get a measure on the November ballot, but that doesn't mean it can't still make it, [an Illinois] Board of Elections spokesman said Monday.

A check of 64,000 signatures--a 19 percent sample of more than 330,000 submitted--did not find enough registered voters to put a measure on the ballot that would ask voters if the state should amend its constitution to ban same-sex marriage, elections board spokesman Dan White said.

The requirement is that more than 95 percent of the sample's signatures be valid, and gay marriage opponents had 91 percent, White said. It was the board's second check of a sample of signatures

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