Both of the board’s Republicans voted against approving the ballot initiative, while both Democrats voted for it.
The bipartisan panel’s vote comes after abortion-rights activists spent several months gathering more than 750,000 signatures from all 83 counties in the state — far exceeding the roughly 425,000 required to qualify. The progressive groups pushing the measure submitted the signatures to the state Bureau of Elections in early July, and the bureau in early August recommended it be certified after finding that the vast majority of the signatures were valid.
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