New Poll Shows 65% of Mississippians Support Restoring Ballot Measure Process
A strong majority of voters — 65% — support restoring the citizen-initiated ballot measure process in Mississippi.
Missouri House Passes Bill to Require Supermajority Approval for Citizen-Initiated Ballot Measures
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“People's enthusiasm for ballot measures has to also include space for protecting the process itself,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, which funds and organizes progressive state ballot measure efforts across the country.
Vanity Fair: Republicans Are Only Getting Sneakier with Their Antiabortion Proposals
“We continue to see a wide gulf between how voters are expressing their desires and how many extremist legislatures are acting,” Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, an advocacy group that backs progressive ballot measures, says.
Reactionary State Legislators Gearing Up to Attack Ballot Measures in 2023
As state legislatures convene across the country this month, the Fairness Project is closely watching as reactionary politicians begin a new round of attacks on citizen-initiated ballot measures and gearing up to fight back.
The Intercept: Abortion rights movement sets its sights on key states
Republican lawmakers have sought to make it harder to get citizen-led initiatives on the ballot. “Those lawmakers know their ideological views are out of sync with their voters,” Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, told The Guardian. “They are trying to change the rules of the game.”
The New York Times Publishes Fairness Project Response To Editorial On Abortion Ballot Measures
Read moreThe New York Times Letters: Efforts to Derail Ballot Measures
"The editorial board is right. Ballot measures are a critical tool for voters to defend reproductive rights. But the editorial misses one big point: The window of opportunity to use them is already closing."