A Florida campaign working to put a marijuana legalization initiative on the 2026 ballot has filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court, alleging that officials are violating election laws by stalling a required review process for the measure without justification.
Smart & Safe Florida filed a petition for writ of mandamus in the Supreme Court on Thursday, arguing that the secretary of state has failed to comply with a statutory mandate to “immediately submit” a notice to the attorney general after receiving sufficient signatures to trigger a fiscal and legal review.
With 662,543 signatures verified by the secretary of state’s office so far, that’s more than triple the 220,016 required to prompt the review. The campaign reached that initial threshold over the summer and notified state officials, but it says it received no response.
“It is nonsensical, and contrary to the express constitutional and statutory mandates, to allow the Secretary [of State] and Director [of the Division of Elections] to indefinitely refuse to issue the Section 15.21 Letter and frustrate the constitutional order,” the filing says, referring to the notification the secretary of state is supposed to transmit to the attorney general when the signature threshold is reached.
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