Complex sentence: The initiative gathered the required number of signatures, but backers alleged that Attorney General Scott Pruitt had changed the verbiage of the initiative in a misleading way, and a result of the legal dispute the vote for the initiative was pushed back to 2018.
Split into simpler sentences: The initiative gathered the required number of signatures, but backers alleged that Attorney General Scott Pruitt had changed the verbiage of the initiative in a misleading way. As result of the legal dispute, the vote for the initiative was pushed back to 2018.