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State politicians’ efforts to silence voters up 95% in an unprecedented assault on the ballot measure process

“SB 1027 explicitly diminishes the voices of urban voters. It’s cowardly, antidemocratic, and an insult to the general principles of one person, one vote, that has guided American elections since the civil rights movement. All voters, regardless of ideology or address, should have their voices heard equally,” said Kelly Hall

“What we’re seeing today is nothing more than a flagrant power grab by out of touch politicians who have taken it upon themselves to supplant the will of the voters with their own unpopular political agenda,” said Kelly Hall, Executive Director of the Fairness Project, the largest funder of abortion rights ballot measures in 2024.

"Floridians have a constitutional right to change policy themselves. State legislators have now effectively silenced their constituents, all in order to maintain their chokehold on policy making,” said Kelly Hall, Executive Director of the Fairness Project.

State legislature seeks to roll back Medicaid expansion passed by voters through 2022 ballot measure

For second time, lawmakers try to push through supermajority requirement to amend state constitution by ballot measure – a scheme voters previously rejected

After voters passed popular laws to protect abortion rights and raise wages in 2024, reactionary politicians try to make ballot measures harder to win

Missouri State Court Allows Clinics to Re-Establish Abortion Care, Upholding Voter-Initiated Ballot Measure Passed in November

Leading national ballot measure organization the Fairness Project invests in building the bench, as they look to keep expanding abortion access and making gains for working families via the ballot box in 2026