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Republicans Move to Limit a Grass-Roots Tradition of Direct Democracy


Republicans Move to Limit a Grass-Roots Tradition of Direct Democracy
Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti
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Boxes of ballot initiative petitions were delivered to the Missouri secretary of state’s office in Jefferson City in May 2020. Republican lawmakers have since refused to carry out the Medicaid expansion that voters favored in November.
In 2008, deep-blue California banned same-sex marriage. In 2018, steadfastly conservative Arkansas and Missouri increased their minimum wage. And last year, Republican-controlled Arizona and Montana legalized recreational marijuana.
These moves were all the product of ballot initiatives, a century-old fixture of American democracy that allows voters to bypass their legislatures to enact new laws, often with results that defy the desires of the state’s elected representatives. While they have been a tool of both parties in the past, Democrats have been particularly succe ....

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GOP targets ballot initiatives after progressive wins


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Republican-controlled legislatures in almost half the states are advancing bills that would make it more difficult to pass citizen-initiated ballot measures a backlash to the success progressive groups had in using the initiative process to advance liberal policy priorities.
In Arizona, voters have in recent years approved initiatives legalizing marijuana, raising taxes on those who make more than $250,000 a year and raising the minimum wage.
Now, GOP legislators are pushing to raise the threshold of votes an initiative needs to win to 60 percent for most initiatives, or two-thirds of the vote for measures that propose new or higher taxes. ....

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Citizen Ballot Initiatives: A New Tool for Election Reform



The last several years have seen the growing and successful use of citizen-initiated ballot initiatives to win major election reforms. Some of the most successful, well-funded, and engaging campaigns have had unlikely initiators: small groups of everyday Americans fed up with waiting for someone else to take on an issue and deciding to do it themselves. Organizers of successful citizen-driven campaigns from different parts of the country, which beat the odds and succeeded, will discuss their issues, their motivations, and how they won.Panelists include:
Chris Melody Fields-Figueredo, Executive Director, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
Katie Fahey, Executive Director, We The People, Michigan ....

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