On the Ballot This Year: The Ballot Itself
Republicans are trying to limit the use of citizen-initiated legislation in some states after years of progressive victories.
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Republicans are trying to limit the use of citizen-initiated legislation in some states after years of progressive victories.
The ballot initiatve process has come under assault nationwide by Republican lawmakers.
The state efforts are a direct threat to abortion-rights advocates and other liberal groups’ efforts to bypass governors and legislatures and take issues directly to voters.
Reproductive rights advocates had amassed more than enough valid signatures to get a ballot measure in front of voters this November that would have enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution.
State ballot measures are becoming the new battleground over abortion access in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Abortion rights advocates are energized after voters in Kansas earlier this month rejected an attempt to strip abortion protections from the state constitution, the first statewide vote on abortion since the court’s…