US Edition‘Our Constitution Is Easy Prey’: Republican-Led States Try to Shut Down Liberal Ballot Initiatives | News Channel 3-12
- Voters in Missouri recently overturned the state's abortion ban, prompting a new referendum aimed at repealing that measure.
- This political dispute follows a pattern where Republican lawmakers in Missouri and other states seek to restrict citizen-led ballot initiatives.
- These lawmakers have introduced stricter rules on signature collection, out-of-state funding, and raised passage thresholds to limit direct democracy.
- Chris Melody Fields Figueredo expressed concern that legislators have been exercising their authority in ways that undermine the public’s democratic choices.
- These developments indicate ongoing conflicts over ballot access as progressive activists push for initiatives while conservatives work to curb them.
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Republicans Work to Undermine Ballot Initiatives
Ballot initiatives are one way voters can get around state government—for example, voters have used ballot measures to fight for abortion access in red states. But Republicans in many GOP-led states have been working to undermine such citizen-driven ballot initiatives, CNN reports. In Missouri, for example, where voters recently...
‘Our constitution is easy prey’: Republican-led states try to shut down liberal ballot initiatives
By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, Toni Easter held a party in her yard in St. Louis to promote what would become a successful ballot initiative on redistricting — only to see it overturned when Republican lawmakers in Missouri put a competing initiative on the ballot. Then last year, she collected signatures in the successful effort to enshrine abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution. This year, the legislature approved a new refer…
‘Our Constitution is easy prey’: Republican-led states try to shut down liberal ballot initiatives
Republican lawmakers are working to cut off ballot measures that enact progressive policies by making it harder for citizen-led measures to qualify for a vote or be enforced.
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