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Nevada Funding for Oakland Athletics Baseball Stadium Referendum (2024)
| Nevada Funding for Oakland Athletics Baseball Stadium Referendum | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Athletics and Bond issues | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Referendum | Origin Citizens |
The Nevada Funding for Oakland Athletics Baseball Stadium Referendum was not on the ballot in Nevada as a veto referendum on November 5, 2024.
This ballot measure would have asked voters to repeal provisions of SB1, which were designed to designate funding for the Oakland Athletics baseball stadium in Las Vegas.
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the ballot measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Nevada
In Nevada, the number of signatures required to qualify a veto referendum for the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the total votes cast in the most recent general election. Moreover, signature gathering must be distributed equally among each of the state's four congressional districts. The initial filing of the petition application cannot be made before August 1 of the year preceding the election year. The signature petitions must be filed with county officials by the third Tuesday in June of an even-numbered year. The final submission of signatures to the secretary of state must be made at least 120 days before the next general election.
The requirements to get a veto referendum certified for the 2024 ballot:
- Signatures: 102,362 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was June 26, 2024.
Signatures are verified by county clerks using a random sampling method if more than 500 signatures were submitted in that county.
Stages of this ballot initiative
- The measure was filed with the secretary of state on September 6, 2023 by the Schools Over Stadiums committee.[1] On November 6, the petition was declared deficient by Judge James Russell.[2]
- On May 13, 2024, the Nevada Supreme Court rejected the ballot measure, saying the petition violated the full-text requirement of the Nevada Constitution.[3]
Lawsuit
| Lawsuit overview | |
| Issue: Is the petition description inaccurate? | |
| Court: First District Court in Carson City | |
| Ruling: The petition was written incorrectly. | |
| Plaintiff(s): Danny Thompson, Thomas Morley | Defendant(s): Schools Over Stadiums PAC |
Source: The Nevada Independent
On September 26, 2023, Danny Thompson and Thomas Morley filed a lawsuit against the Schools Over Stadiums committee with the First Judicial District Court in Carson City, Nevada. The lawsuit said that the petition does not include the full text of the initiative, and that the description of the referendum is inaccurate. A representative of Schools Over Stadiums, Alexander Marks, said in response to the lawsuit, "Suing educators trying to put schools first sets a terrible tone for an organization claiming to now care about our community."[4] On November 6, Judge James Russell ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, ruling that the petition was written incorrectly.[2]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ The Nevada Independent, "Teacher-led PAC files petition to block public funding for A’s stadium in Vegas," September 6, 2023
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 News 3, "Nevada judge halts initiative seeking to block A's stadium funding," November 6, 2023
- ↑ The Nevada Independent, "Ballot measure seeking to defund A’s stadium rejected by Nevada Supreme Court," May 13, 2024
- ↑ The Nevada Independent, "Lawsuit from A’s stadium supporters seeks to block union’s Nevada ballot measure," September 28, 2023
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