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Character is on the ballot. Compassion is on the ballot. Decency, science, democracy. They are all on the ballot. – Joe Biden	added by anonymous 6 months ago
While legal changes in the way we vote are the best way to increase turnout, there are a number of steps that can be taken to encourage targeted voters and our personal acquaintances to cast a ballot. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 10 months ago
Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition. – Planned Parenthood	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
You would have essentially on the ballot the question of both Comstock enforcement and also potentially Comstock repeal, do I think, under a Trump presidency, they’re going to confiscate surgical gloves because they could be adapted for use in abortion? No, I don’t think that’s probably going to happen. – Mary Ziegler	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Attacks, through state legislatures, on the ballot measure process have been pretty consistent and pretty aggressive for the last several (election) cycles. – Kelly Hall	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People shouldn’t be allowed to lay in bed and eat Tostitos and do a mail-in ballot, i’m not stupid. We’re going to have to learn to do it. – Doug McLinko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This bill will bring us one step closer to making equal access to the ballot box a reality for every qualified New Mexican. Each component of the act represents commonsense voting protections ensuring that eligible New Mexicans have their constitutional right to vote. – Katy Duhigg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re coordinated enough to do whatever makes the most sense, if that’s in-person protesting, then we will happily do that. This is an issue that we will be voting on and will remember at the ballot box. – Alex Haraus	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Even after Kentuckians overwhelmingly voted against an anti-abortion ballot measure, abortion remains banned in the state. We are extremely disappointed in today’s decision, but we will never give up the fight to restore bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom in Kentucky. – Daniel Cameron	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The reason why this is never done until it’s done is because RNC members are experienced political hands, they know how to look you in the eye and say, ‘I love you,’ and then walk into the voting booth because it’s a secret ballot and slit your throat. – Bill Palatucci	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That remaining 1 or 2 or 3% is make or break in this district. Having the president on the ballot would have made a fundamental difference. – Jevin Hodge	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And as those concessions are made, they should rally in support behind him and stop with this effort to impede the will of the conference and trying to find some consensus candidate that nobody knows who it is, and the reality is, there is no one. Kevin has the support of the overwhelming majority of us, and we will be voting for him, whether it's one ballot or 100 ballots or more. – Mike Lawler	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Kevin [ McCarthy ] has the support of the overwhelming majority of us, and we will be voting for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, whether it's one ballot or 100 ballots or more, so I think the time for this effort needs to come to an end and everybody in the conference needs to get on board so that we can get about the work we were elected to do, which is stopping the Joe Biden and Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi agenda, advancing our agenda, providing oversight, and getting about restoring balance and common sense in government for the American people. – Mike Lawler	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I'm spending time trying to, hopefully, inspire these young people to commit to a lifelong practice of making sure their voices are heard, not only at the ballot box, but through activism and through public service. – Raphael Warnock	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
And so, understand when we talk about democracy is on the ballot, it is.And the nature of democracy is such that I think there’s a duality, on the one hand, there’s an incredible amount of strength when a democracy is intact, in terms of what it can give its people to protect and fight for their individual rights and freedoms. In that way, it can have great strength in lifting people up. – Kamala Harris	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
As with other ballot initiatives across the country, pro-abortion forces vastly outspent pro-life forces to drive dishonest messages to confuse the voters, in Montana, pro-abortion forces ranTV adscharacterizing the initiative as an ‘an extreme, harmful government intrusion into medical care,’ when all the initiative would do is provide the same level of care to an infant who survived an abortion as you would to an infant born early in pregnancy. If Montana voters knew the truth about what the initiative would actually do, it would have passed overwhelmingly. Our side must do a better job raising the resources needed to go toe-to-toe with the heavily funded abortion industry to arm voters with the truth. – Marjorie Dannenfelser	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We saw that there were some scanner problems, the scanner is the device that actually takes an image of the ballot and records the ballot, we saw that there were some duo problems – the duo is the device where the voter actually makes their selections and prints their selections onto the ballot. We saw that there were some ballot jams. – Brandon Bell/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's in many ways, it's wonderful. Arizonans appreciate the … ease of the voting process in that you can just take your early ballot and drop it off on Election Day. – Stephen Richer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This number is immense, and it's something … it's a conversation that probably Arizona needs to have in terms of public policy because this is a number that keeps on growing, it's in many ways, it's wonderful. Arizonans appreciate the … ease of the voting process in that you can just take your early ballot and drop it off on Election Day. – Stephen Richer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
And someone had told her she could leave her ballot and she’s like, No, no, no, no, no. – Voter Michael McCuarrie	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Candidates up and down the ballot — from progressive to more conservative — were hurt by Joe Manchin’s stalling of the Democratic economic agenda for an entire year, manchin owes all Democrats and the country an apology. – Adam Green	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is the Department of State's position that voters who make, you know, minor errors on their ballot – if they forget to sign it, if they forget to date it – you know, they should be able to go to their county, fix that issue. – Leigh Chapman	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I have done everything I can to stay in contact with Cobb County to figure out where my ballot is, but I was barely able to get through to them, until they told me it was too late to mail another ballot. – Madison Cook	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
But what we're also going to do is do everything we can to ensure to everybody they’re free and fair, and if anybody is doing–if there's any shenanigans, we're ready to make sure, we make sure we support our candidates to make sure that these elections are fair and every ballot is counted the right way. – Rick Scott	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

Character is on the ballot. Compassion is on the ballot. Decency, science, democracy. They are all on the ballot.

– Joe Biden

added by anonymous
6 months ago

While legal changes in the way we vote are the best way to increase turnout, there are a number of steps that can be taken to encourage targeted voters and our personal acquaintances to cast a ballot.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition.

– Planned Parenthood

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

You would have essentially on the ballot the question of both Comstock enforcement and also potentially Comstock repeal, do I think, under a Trump presidency, they’re going to confiscate surgical gloves because they could be adapted for use in abortion? No, I don’t think that’s probably going to happen.

– Mary Ziegler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Attacks, through state legislatures, on the ballot measure process have been pretty consistent and pretty aggressive for the last several (election) cycles.

– Kelly Hall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People shouldn’t be allowed to lay in bed and eat Tostitos and do a mail-in ballot, i’m not stupid. We’re going to have to learn to do it.

– Doug McLinko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This bill will bring us one step closer to making equal access to the ballot box a reality for every qualified New Mexican. Each component of the act represents commonsense voting protections ensuring that eligible New Mexicans have their constitutional right to vote.

– Katy Duhigg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re coordinated enough to do whatever makes the most sense, if that’s in-person protesting, then we will happily do that. This is an issue that we will be voting on and will remember at the ballot box.

– Alex Haraus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even after Kentuckians overwhelmingly voted against an anti-abortion ballot measure, abortion remains banned in the state. We are extremely disappointed in today’s decision, but we will never give up the fight to restore bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom in Kentucky.

– Daniel Cameron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reason why this is never done until it’s done is because RNC members are experienced political hands, they know how to look you in the eye and say, ‘I love you,’ and then walk into the voting booth because it’s a secret ballot and slit your throat.

– Bill Palatucci

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That remaining 1 or 2 or 3% is make or break in this district. Having the president on the ballot would have made a fundamental difference.

– Jevin Hodge

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And as those concessions are made, they should rally in support behind him and stop with this effort to impede the will of the conference and trying to find some consensus candidate that nobody knows who it is, and the reality is, there is no one. Kevin has the support of the overwhelming majority of us, and we will be voting for him, whether it's one ballot or 100 ballots or more.

– Mike Lawler

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Kevin [ McCarthy ] has the support of the overwhelming majority of us, and we will be voting for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, whether it's one ballot or 100 ballots or more, so I think the time for this effort needs to come to an end and everybody in the conference needs to get on board so that we can get about the work we were elected to do, which is stopping the Joe Biden and Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi agenda, advancing our agenda, providing oversight, and getting about restoring balance and common sense in government for the American people.

– Mike Lawler

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'm spending time trying to, hopefully, inspire these young people to commit to a lifelong practice of making sure their voices are heard, not only at the ballot box, but through activism and through public service.

– Raphael Warnock

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

And so, understand when we talk about democracy is on the ballot, it is.And the nature of democracy is such that I think there’s a duality, on the one hand, there’s an incredible amount of strength when a democracy is intact, in terms of what it can give its people to protect and fight for their individual rights and freedoms. In that way, it can have great strength in lifting people up.

– Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

As with other ballot initiatives across the country, pro-abortion forces vastly outspent pro-life forces to drive dishonest messages to confuse the voters, in Montana, pro-abortion forces ranTV adscharacterizing the initiative as an ‘an extreme, harmful government intrusion into medical care,’ when all the initiative would do is provide the same level of care to an infant who survived an abortion as you would to an infant born early in pregnancy. If Montana voters knew the truth about what the initiative would actually do, it would have passed overwhelmingly. Our side must do a better job raising the resources needed to go toe-to-toe with the heavily funded abortion industry to arm voters with the truth.

– Marjorie Dannenfelser

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We saw that there were some scanner problems, the scanner is the device that actually takes an image of the ballot and records the ballot, we saw that there were some duo problems – the duo is the device where the voter actually makes their selections and prints their selections onto the ballot. We saw that there were some ballot jams.

– Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's in many ways, it's wonderful. Arizonans appreciate the … ease of the voting process in that you can just take your early ballot and drop it off on Election Day.

– Stephen Richer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This number is immense, and it's something … it's a conversation that probably Arizona needs to have in terms of public policy because this is a number that keeps on growing, it's in many ways, it's wonderful. Arizonans appreciate the … ease of the voting process in that you can just take your early ballot and drop it off on Election Day.

– Stephen Richer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

And someone had told her she could leave her ballot and she’s like, No, no, no, no, no.

– Voter Michael McCuarrie

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Candidates up and down the ballot — from progressive to more conservative — were hurt by Joe Manchin’s stalling of the Democratic economic agenda for an entire year, manchin owes all Democrats and the country an apology.

– Adam Green

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is the Department of State's position that voters who make, you know, minor errors on their ballot – if they forget to sign it, if they forget to date it – you know, they should be able to go to their county, fix that issue.

– Leigh Chapman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I have done everything I can to stay in contact with Cobb County to figure out where my ballot is, but I was barely able to get through to them, until they told me it was too late to mail another ballot.

– Madison Cook

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

But what we're also going to do is do everything we can to ensure to everybody they’re free and fair, and if anybody is doing–if there's any shenanigans, we're ready to make sure, we make sure we support our candidates to make sure that these elections are fair and every ballot is counted the right way.

– Rick Scott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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