Nevada's top election official is giving the go-ahead to two initiatives for the 2016 ballot: One to allow recreational marijuana use, and the other to tighten background checks for anyone buying guns from private sellers and gun show exhibitors.
Secretary of State Ross Miller on Monday certified as official petitions submitted Nov. 12 by proponents of the separate measures.
The groups needed 102,000 signatures statewide to force the 2015 Legislature to consider each issue or automatically put the question on the November 2016 ballot.
Nevadans for Background Checks say they delivered nearly 247,000 signatures, and the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol says it filed almost 200,000 signatures.
Miller's move came despite a letter from a gun-rights group that says it found irregularities in filings in the background check petition.
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