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“We are thrilled by this victory, which took years of work, coalition building and organizing to achieve,” said Kelly Hall, director of the Fairness Project, which spearheaded the effort.

“Citizens took matters into their own hands to pass Medicaid expansion via ballot measure — showing us once again that if politicians won’t do their job, their constituents will step up and do it for them," said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, which helped pass the ballot measure.

“Direct democracy has been a path for important change and also a path of last resort,” Kelly Hall, a former Obama administration health official who is now the executive director of the Fairness Project, said. “Expanding Medicaid anywhere helps protect it everywhere.”

“South Dakotans know their families and neighbors deserve health care without going into debt or avoiding check-ups, procedures, and medication they need,” Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, which worked with the ballot initiative’s supporters in South Dakota and has helped other states win Medicaid expansion.

“We’re looking forward to passing more ballot measures to protect abortion rights wherever we can,” Fairness Project Executive Director Kelly Hall said in a statement Tuesday evening.

“The more people feel disillusioned with the political process, the more I hope they’ll pay attention to ballot measures,” said Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, an organization that supports a handful of ballot initiatives across the country. “It’s a way to move through partisan and political gridlock."

Protect AR Constitution, a ballot measure committee that opposes the initiative, has raised more than $780,000 as of the beginning of November, including $450,000 from the Fairness Project, a nonprofit that helps run progressive ballot measures.

During a year when inflation and the economy are of concern to voters across the U.S., the Proposition 209 is attracting some national attention as a test case for other states, according to the Fairness Project, a national nonprofit that funds, organizes and advocates for ballot measures and is supporting Proposition 209.