I did a search and found that this news had already been posted in the form of a link to a site, but I found nothing so far as text actually posted on DU, so i'm posting:
http://argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060530/NEWS/60530002/1001Abortion ban repeal drive gets 37,846 signatures
May 30, 2006
The South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families announced Tuesday that it had secured more than twice the number of signatures it needed to refer the abortion ban passed by the 2006 Legislature to a vote of the people this fall.
At a press conference at the Downtown Holiday Inn, officials with the campaign said they had 37,846 signatures – more than double the 16,728 they needed to get.
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Supporters of the repeal said they had 1,200 volunteers from 138 communities circulate the petitions. None of the volunteers were paid, they said.
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The group planned to file nearly 38,000 signatures with the secretary of state in Pierre early Tuesday afternoon. That’s about 20,000 more than required for a referral – the process by which citizens may veto actions of the Legislature
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