Delegate Michael Hough was able to cast a vote in the Maryland General Assembly that granted in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants, but he's running into problems signing a simple petition to overturn the same law.
Hough, a Frederick County Republican, was on the losing side of the vote on the bill, and is now hoping the voters will be able to consider it at referendum through a petition process allowed in the Maryland Constitution.
Petition gatherers need to get 55,736 valid signatures by June 30 in order to stop enactment of the law and send it to referendum. The new law would allow students who have attended at least three years of Maryland high school and can show they or their parents have filed tax returns would qualify for in-state tuition at community colleges, and later four-year institutions, even if they were illegal immigrants.
Hough found out on Monday that his signature on the petition was rejected by state elections officials due to a "circulator issue" -- a problem with how the person who collected his signature filled out the page.
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