Animal Cruelty Measure Approved for Ballot

| 9/4/2012

North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger announced today that the North Dakotans to Stop Animal Cruelty ballot measure to strengthen the penalties for extreme acts of cruelty to dogs, cats and horses has been approved to be on the November ballot.

North Dakota and South Dakota are the only two states that do not impose felony-level penalties for the most extreme forms of animal cruelty.

The group only needed a little more than 13,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot, but surpassed it with more than 25,000 signatures.

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