June 14th: California Three Strikes Project fails to get enough
signatures for ballot initiative to amend 3-strikes law
According to an article in the Oakland Tribune, the California Three
Strikes Project has failed to receive enough signatures to get their initiative
to amend the 3-strikes law on the ballot for this November. The California
Three Strikes Project needed 419,260 signatures by May 26 in order to put the
initiative before voters.
"We didn't make it," project co-founder Jan
Tucker acknowledged Wednesday. "I don't think we were close, although I don't
have an actual count." Tucker said his forces will regroup and try again in
2002, the next year in which ballot initiatives can appear.
"Critics of
'Three Strikes' fail to put amendment on ballot," by Josh Richman, Oakland
Tribune, June 15, 2000.
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