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"Regardless of where you think the right conventional wisdom is around how candidates should be balancing issues in their own platforms, there is an undeniable energy around voting directly on abortion issues in the states where voters are given that opportunity,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project.

“There’s a direct connection between voting on a ballot measure and seeing a change in your community in a way that you often don’t get from voting for a candidate,” Kelly Hall, executive director of a progressive national non-profit called the Fairness Project, says.

“We are seeing in real time in 2022 just how ballot measures are peaking voter turnout,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, which backs citizen initiatives across the US.

“The prospect of Medicaid expansion means that those folks are able to pay for their care, and hospitals and clinics are carrying a lot less bad debt,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, a progressive organization that supports grassroots campaigns to make policy at the ballot box.

Americans are having trouble making ends meet as inequality increases, said Kelly Hall, executive director of The Fairness Project, which is backing a number of the measures. The ballot initiatives are aimed at easing the burden for working people.

The Fairness Project estimates passage of the ballot measure in South Dakota alone would “keep $328 million of (federal) tax dollars in-state each year.”

“It is harder and harder for conservative politicians to stand behind the idea that the A.C.A. is just one lawsuit away from being repealed or overturned,” said Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, a national nonprofit that is behind the “Yes on D” campaign.

What they're saying: "No one should be trapped in debt simply because they needed medical care, yet tens of millions of Americans are stuck with thousands of dollars of medical debt," Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, an organization that pushes such ballot measures, told the Arizona Republic.