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Nearly 150 bills were introduced across 15 state legislatures this year seeking to make it harder for initiatives to qualify for the ballot or win approval by voters — nearly double the amount of just two years ago, according to the Fairness Project, a progressive group that has backed dozens of ballot initiatives in states.
State politicians’ efforts to silence voters up 95% in an unprecedented assault on the ballot measure process
“It’s a damning indictment of representative democracy when elected officials are scared of the will of their own voters,” said Alexis Magnan-Callaway of the Fairness Project, a union-backed advocacy group that focuses on state ballot measures.
In this episode of The Electorette, host Jen Taylor-Skinner is joined by Kelly Hall, Executive Director of the Fairness Project, to discuss how ballot measures are transforming the political landscape.
“Medicaid has a broader and broader appeal the more people that are on it, and the more people who know someone who’s on it. That’s incredibly powerful politically,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, which backed state Medicaid referendums.
Voters are going to have to do politicians’ jobs for them by passing good policies on our own.
By Kelly Hall
Kelly Hall: "Instead of having a fair fight, a really public conversation about the issues, where politicians or other citizens who disagree on an issue say, let's persuade each other, let's have a debate."
“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
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