Board: Foes of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants get signatures to put it to Maryland voters

[The Northerner]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Opponents of allowing in-state tuition for certain illegal immigrants have obtained enough signatures to put the measure on next year’s ballot, a state board formally certified on Friday.

The Maryland State Board of Elections validated 108,923 signatures in the petition drive, elections administrator Linda Lamone wrote in a letter posted on the board’s website. Opponents needed 55,736 signatures to put the measure on the ballot. Elections officials rejected 23,148 signatures out of a total of 132,071 that were submitted.

“Today the voters of Maryland have achieved a huge victory,” said Delegate Neil Parrott, R-Washington, who led the petition drive.

The successful petitioning of the measure to the ballot means the law is on hold until Maryland voters decide the matter in November 2012, or until a judge rules otherwise.

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