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The Fairness Project today released its 2023 in Review memo, looking back at crucial ballot measure victories in Ohio this year and providing a preview for the next major fights in 2024.
The Fairness Project announced this week that it will lead a panel of experts at South by Southwest 2024 in Austin, Texas, in a discussion about the power of direct democracy to drive change and progress on issues such as health care, minimum wage, and reproductive rights.
Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, which promotes progressive ballot measures in red and purple states, told me, “A victory in Ohio really does tell all of us in the abortion-rights movement that this is possible almost everywhere.”
"Winning in red states is inspiring. Ohio really has taken this ballot measure strategy to protect abortion rights to the next level," said Kelly Hall, executive director of The Fairness Project, a progressive nonprofit."
“Ballot measures are one of – if not the most – powerful tools we have to defend reproductive rights in a post-Roe nation, and this work will continue," Fairness Project Executive Director Kelly Hall said in a statement. "Next, we are ready to fight alongside Arizona for Abortion Access in 2024 to secure reproductive freedom for all."
“To their credit, extremist politicians in Ohio recognized pretty early this year that they were deeply out of sync with their electorate [on abortion],” says Kelly Hall of the Fairness Project, a group that works on ballot measures around the country.
SARAH MCCAMMON: "I talked to Kelly Hall with The Fairness Project last night. That's a group that advocates for the use of ballot measures to advance progressive policies...
“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,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, a nonprofit that promotes economic and social justice issues via ballot initiatives.
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