The conservative group Protect Marriage Illinois needed to gather about 270,000 signatures by Monday in order to put an advisory referendum on the November 4 ballot to move towards making gay marriage unconstitutional. But The Rockford Register-Star reports that they missed the State Board of Elections deadline.
Cue the trombones.
Protect Marriage Illinois didn't return calls to the Register-Star, so it's not clear how many signatures they did in fact gather. Nonetheless, their failure to pass the necessary threshold calls into question whether the initiative would have passed even if it had made it on the ballot.
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