After three hours of debate in a Cole County courtroom, political activists still didn't know Friday if a tobacco tax measure will appear on Missouri's Nov. 7 ballot. Legal proceedings regarding the initiative petition will continue Monday in Judge Thomas Brown's courtroom, with a decision expected soon.Secretary of State Robin Carnahan notified petitioners a month ago they had fallen 274 signatures short of the 23,353 needed from the 5th Congressional District to place the measure on the November ballot.Petitioners responded with a lawsuit.On Friday Chuck Hatfield - the attorney representing the Committee for a Healthy Future - told Brown they've identified 1,070 signatures which ought to be considered registered voters, despite the fact that local election authorities initially concluded they were not.Bolstering Hatfield's argument, Kansas City election authorities acknowledged a week ago they had verified as valid 314 petition signatures - enough to meet the shortfall.Tiffany Cline, a Kansas City Board of Elections data entry clerk, told the judge her office had taken a second look at 1,000 petition pages out of a total of 2,900.