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Nebraska "Stand Your Ground" Rights Initiative (2022)
| Nebraska "Stand Your Ground" Rights Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Firearms | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Nebraska "Stand Your Ground" Rights Initiative was not on the ballot in Nebraska as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
The initiative would have amended the Nebraska Constitution to establish that no individual has a duty to retreat but may use any force reasonably necessary, including deadly force, to protect life or property. The amendment would have taken effect on January 13, 2023.[1][2]
Text of measure
Full text
- The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Nebraska, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 10 percent of registered voters as of the deadline for filing signatures. Because of the unique signature requirement based on registered voters, Nebraska is also the only state where petition sponsors cannot know the exact number of signatures required until they are submitted. Nebraska law also features a distribution requirement mandating that petitions contain signatures from 5 percent of the registered voters in each of two-fifths (38) of Nebraska's 93 counties.
Signatures must be submitted at least four months prior to the next general election. Signatures do not roll over and become invalid after the next general election at least four months after the initial initiative application filing. Depending on when the initiative application is filed, petitioners can have up to just under two years to circulate petitions.
The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 123,966
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 7, 2022.
Signatures are submitted to the secretary of state. The secretary of state sends the appropriate signature petitions to each county, where county election officials verify the signatures. Upon receiving the signatures back from county officials, the secretary of state determines whether or not the requirements were met.
Details about this initiative
- The initiative was filed by Robert Rhodes and Michael Connely on December 9, 2021.[2]
- The sponsors of the initiative did not file the required number of signatures by the deadline.[2]
See also
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Footnotes
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