In the News November 8, 2023

The Cut: Abortion Rights Swept the 2023 Elections

Kelly Hall, executive director of Fairness Project, which helps organize ballot-measure campaigns across the country, said of Ohio’s ballot measure, “This incredible win proves what we’ve known since Dobbs: that voters are tired of seeing their politicians fail and are prepared to take on major fights to defend reproductive freedom themselves."

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In the News November 7, 2023

Courthouse News: Ohioans head to the polls with abortion amendment, marijuana legalization at stake

Democrats spent a significant amount of money in support of Issue 1; the ACLU, the Fairness Project and the Sixteen Thirty Fund contributed millions of dollars to several PACs, including Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom and Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights.

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In the News November 7, 2023

Vanity Fair: “There’s Another Fight Coming”: Ohio’s Abortion Ballot Measure Is Part of a Bigger War on Access

Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, an organization that provides support for progressive ballot initiatives, said that the election result sent “a clear message to other extremist officials around the country that democracy will not die.”

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In the News November 6, 2023

Bloomberg CityLab: Election-Day Ballot Measures Offer Preview of 2024 Fights

“We are spending more time, energy and actual money trying to anticipate all the different ways that these ballot measures could be vulnerable than we ever have,” said Alexis Magnan-Callaway, communications and digital strategy director for the Fairness Project, another group that champions ballot measures.

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In the News October 16, 2023

Scripps News: Abortion votes are causing a divide on state ballots across the US

"Michigan voters were looking down the barrel of the possibility that a 1931 ban on abortion would go into effect if they didn't change their constitution to protect abortion rights," says Kelly Hall, executive director of The Fairness Project, a progressive group that organizes state ballot initiatives

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In the News September 25, 2023

The Messenger: Advocates Launch Bid to Place Abortion Rights Measure on Arizona 2024 Ballot

The campaign needs to collect 383,923 valid signatures from voters by July 3 of next year in order to make the ballot, per a news release from the Fairness Project, a progressive nonprofit organization that is supporting this reproductive rights initiative along with similar ones across the country.

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In the News September 13, 2023

AZ Central: Your ballot likely will have fewer ballot measures in 2024. Here are some reasons why

“For reproductive rights, neither of the things that passed in 2022 are likely to impact that,” said Hannah Ledford, deputy executive director and campaigns director from The Fairness Project, a national nonprofit that works to pass ballot measures on issues such as increasing the minimum wage.

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