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Ward Connerly’s drive to turn this November’s election into a “Super Tuesday” on affirmative action has been dealt another blow, as he has been forced to cross a second state off the list of five where he had hoped to get proposals on this fall’s ballot to curtail racial, ethnic, and gender preferences.
The organization leading his campaign’s efforts in Missouri acknowledged on Sunday that it would miss that day’s deadline for turning in enough petition signatures to put the measure before voters this year. With the campaign’s Oklahoma organization having similarly scuttled its efforts last month for lack of petition signatures, Mr. Connerly’s initial list of targets for such measures has been whittled down to Arizona, Colorado, and Nebraska.