Colorado pot-legalization ballot deadline is today

The campaign behind a measure to legalize limited possession of marijuana in Colorado will learn today whether it has enough signatures for the initiative to make the ballot.

The Colorado Secretary of State's office must determine by today whether the campaign collected 86,105 signatures from valid Colorado voters. Last month, the campaign turned in nearly twice that many. But, after reviewing a sample of those signatures, the Secretary of State's office could not conclusively project whether there were enough valid signatures on the petitions for the initiative to qualify.

That meant the Secretary of State's office needed to go line-by-line through the petitions, verifying each signature.

If the initiative falls short of the needed signatures, the campaign will have 15 days to collect more.

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