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Citizen Ballot Initiatives Help Voters Bypass Extreme Legislatures. But Expect More Attempts to Block Those Initiatives in 2025

December 23, 2024December 23, 2024

As voters turn to ballot initiatives to bypass extreme legislatures, legislatures are manipulating initiative rules to protect their partisan power. Expect more such attacks on direct democracy in 2025.

Is it Illegal to Pay a $47 Bounty to Get a Registered Voter to Sign a Petition? Elon Musk’s Super PAC is Doing Just That.

October 9, 2024October 9, 2024

An Elon Musk super PAC is offering a $47 recruiting bounty for referring registered voters who then sign a petition pledging support for the First and Second Amendments. So, what’s behind it and is it illegal?

2023 Anti-Voter Predictions – Citizen Ballot Initiatives Likely Targets of Anti-Voter Legislatures

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023

This week, we’re making predictions on what state democracy legislation we’ll see in 2023. Last year, some of the most significant state democracy reforms came from citizen ballot initiatives – so we predict you’ll see anti-voter legislatures attempt to make restrictions to the citizen ballot initiative process.

ADM for Sept. 2, 2022: Who Dunnit? Arizona Voting Rights Initiative Dies a Suspicious Death

September 1, 2022September 1, 2022

Who-done-it fans, today we have the case of the invalidated signatures. A voting rights reform initiative in Arizona has come to a tragic end, with the victim apparently being killed by a judge, with a calculator, in the courtroom.