Overview
- State records show the recreational marijuana drive at 783,592 validated signatures, short of the 880,062 required to qualify.
- Smart & Safe Florida called the announcement premature, saying it submitted more than 1.4 million signatures and expects county tallies to lift the total once fully reported.
- HB 1205, enacted in 2025, added registration and training for circulators and a 10‑day submission window, changes critics say made qualification prohibitively difficult.
- Validation actions rejected large batches of petitions, including about 200,000 lacking full text, roughly 43,000 from voters labeled inactive, and about 34,000 gathered by non‑residents, with mixed court rulings on those categories.
- Attorney General James Uthmeier said fraud investigations continue, citing recent arrests, while the Medicaid expansion campaign reported 75,855 validated signatures and is shifting efforts to 2028.