A historic vote that legalized abortion rights. The expansion of legal marijuana and sports betting. Increases to the state’s minimum wage and limits on tax increases. For more than a century, voters ...
Around 89 percent of Californians vote by mail, which is understandable given the increasing complexity of our ballot choices ...
A Missouri judge ruled that a ballot measure strengthening Missouri’s most visible form of direct democracy will not be on November ballots, siding with Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins. In ...
This article was originally published in the media outlet, WhoWhatWhy. “No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, ...
Chuck Hatfield, attorney for Respect MO Voters, speaks with reporters after a court hearing on Tuesday. Jack Harvel Jack.Harvel@KCStar.com A Missouri judge will decide by Wednesday if Amendment 6 can ...
At the national level, petitioning Congress peaked in the 19th century but has declined since then. In the 19th century disenfranchised citizens, including women before suffrage, free blacks, and ...
The defining feature of Western representative democracy today is that the individuals we elect don’t represent anything other than monied interests and corporate power. We know this from the daily ...
Direct democracy campaign unloads boxes of signatures to deliver to the Secretary of State. Credit: Brian Chilson Protect AR Rights today submitted 108,837 signatures to the Secretary of State’s ...
Regarding your editorial “Democrats Turn Against Direct Democracy” (July 31): New York City Democrats belong on that same roster. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his allies have suppressed a referendum on ...
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