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All charges against a Nebraska notary public caught up in a legal challenge against the state’s recent medical cannabis legalization campaign were dropped last week, the Nebraska Examiner reports.

The state had charged Jacy C. Todd with 24 cases of “official misconduct,” accusing the 53-year-old notary public of improperly notarizing pages of medical cannabis petition signatures on 24 occasions. Prosecutors argued in the case that notaries are public officials and that Todd “knowingly” broke the law, and the charges prompted a last-minute legal challenge against the medical cannabis vote.

However, Hall County Judge Alfred Corey on Friday accepted a request by Todd’s attorney to dismiss the charges, writing in his opinion, “While these duties greatly assist others, notary publics are not public servants who are performing governmental functions.”

“We recognize the critical need for a notary’s duties to be carried out correctly and with integrity. But a notary’s duties, important as they are, hardly implicate responsibilities that go to the heart of representative government. Rather, these duties are essentially clerical and ministerial.” — Hall County Judge Alfred Corey, in the opinion

Nebraska voters passed both of the medical cannabis measures that appeared before them this month: one of the ballot initiatives legalizes medical cannabis for qualified patients, and the other establishes a program regulating the cultivation and sale of medical cannabis products. In 2020, advocates submitted a single medical cannabis petition but a Lancaster County sheriff challenged the effort for violating a state law requiring ballot initiatives to be limited to a single issue, and the courts ultimately ruled against the petition.

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