Opponents of a law that would have effectively shut down Internet sweepstakes cafes across the state filed referendum petitions today with Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, one day before the law was to have taken effect.
The filing puts the law on hold while elections officials check to see if enough valid signatures were turned in to get the issue on the ballot. If that is the case, the issue would go before voters in November 2014.
In the meantime, the law would remain on hold.
Petitioners filed 433,884 signatures with the secretary of state. For the referendum to qualify for the ballot, 231,148 must be deemed valid signatures of registered voter. That amounts to 6 percent of the total vote cast for governor in 2010.
Additionally, the petitioners also must have collected signatures from at least 44 of Ohioâs 88 counties, and within each of those counties, collected enough signatures equal to three percent of the total vote cast for governor in 2010.
Husted directed county boards of elections to have their review of the signatures done by Sept. 20.
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