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“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.
In addition to defeating Issue 2, the Fairness Project led the charge to defeat a similar measure in South Dakota earlier this year that also would have required a supermajority for ballot measures.
“Despite swaths of disinformation, opposition spending, and outright lies from anti-choice extremists, our coalition succeeded to restore the protections of Roe for millions and guarantee reproductive rights for generations to come."
This success of the Raise the Wage Nebraska campaign, an effort supported by the Fairness Project, means that about 150,000 workers will see a raise starting next year — more than a fifth of the state’s workforce.
A Fairness Project-supported campaign, Vermont for Reproductive Liberty, was behind the effort to pass Prop 5. When race was called shortly before 10 p.m. ET, “Yes” votes were leading 76% to 24%.
The Fairness Project is backing eight ballot measure campaigns on key issues in 2022 and has won 24 ballot measure campaigns since 2016.
“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.
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