A group opposed to an effort to overturn Washington’s new “everything but marriage” same-sex domestic partner law has sued in King County Superior Court to keep the state from certifying the measure for the fall ballot. Washington Families Standing Together says in the lawsuit that the secretary of state has not complied with the law in processing Referendum 71. Signature gatherers are supposed to sign declarations saying that signatures they’ve collected are valid to the best of their knowledge and that they personally circulated the petition, the lawsuit says.

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