BISC serves as the nerve center of proactive and defensive ballot initiative efforts. Our efforts have been credited with helping progressives catch up to the right-wing's use of ballot initiatives as a political tool.
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Still have election fever? So do we. Check out our newly released 2009 Post-Election Ballot Bulletin and results from ballot measure races across the country here: http://ballot.org/pages/election_central
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This election, states such as Ohio, Maine, Washington, Texas, and New Jersey faced tough ballot measure races around the issues of marriage equality, fiscal and budget issues, and economic security.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center BISC Executive Director Kristina Wilfore appears in Huffington Post, saying "tea baggers [got] kicked where it hurts." Read more now: http://tinyurl.com/y89u5s3
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Huffington Post: It should come as no surprise that most of the political and pundit class in the beltway are looking in all the wrong places as they try to use the 2009 elections as a barometer of where the country is at. ...
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center After some hard fought battles across the country, votes from yesterday's Election Day are coming in. While some results are still unofficial, check out the latest in the ballot measure world by visiting us at http://www.ballot.org.
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This weekend, an investigation by Boston TV channel WCVB-TV confirmed
what we already suspected--Massachusetts is ripe for out-of-state
signature gatherers, some of whom are actually wanted criminals,
collecting the personal information of voters. Learn more now at
http://bit.ly/gEjyd.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Live in DC? Don't miss Michael Huttner, Founder and Executive Director of ProgressNow, tomorrow at the 5th and K location of Busboys and Poets. He'll be discussing his new book, "50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America." For more info, click here and below: http://tinyurl.com/yaagn6E.
Source: www.50waysyoucanhelpobama.com
Prior to his book signing in Washington DC Oct. 7, 50 Ways author Michael Huttner was interviewed on Channel 8 in Washington DC. Watch the interview here.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center From Florida to California, opponents of reproductive choice are trying to put restrictive personhood measures on ballots next year. Read more now: http://tinyurl.com/yb6bm58.
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LA Times: It is one of the enduring questions of religion and science, and lately of American politics: When does a fertilized egg become a person? Abortion foes, tired of a profusion of laws that limit ...
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Maine's "No on TABOR II" campaign just released a new campaign ad, showing how TABOR's back on the ballot this fall, despite being rejected by Maine voters in 2004 and 2006. Check it out below and go to http://www.ballot.org for more.
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Need more proof that TABOR was disastrous for Colorado? A new poll by the Colorado Policy Institute shows that nearly half of Colorado voters think the state is on the wrong track, and 55% think that TABOR should be repealed.
Read more now below and at http://www.ballot.org.
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Denver Business Journal: Nearly half of Colorado voters think the state is off on the wrong track, although those in the Denver area are more positive, according to a new poll commissioned by the Colorado Policy Institute.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Campaigns in ME and WA are fighting tough battles to protect marriage equality and defeat harmful TABOR and fiscal ballot measures. Stay up to date with the campaigns--check out their ads now at http://www.ballot.org.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Tim Eyman's I-1033 will have harmful results in Washington, just like it did in Colorado. Watch the video below to see what TABOR did to Colorado's economy -- and why Colorado voters suspended it in 2005. For more campaign videos, check out our video archive at http://www.ballot.org/video.
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http://no1033.com Learn about the damage that the TABOR formula did to Colorado's economy -- and why Colorado voters suspended TABOR in 2005. Don't let the same thing happen to Washington!
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center With an Oct. 7 deadline approaching, Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Brad White says 35,000 signatures have been verified for a 2010 ballot initiative requiring voter ID. Read more now: http://www.ballot.org/news/entry/1299/
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Last week, anti-choice group Personhood USA launched an effort in Florida to outlaw all abortions and certain types of birth control, including oral contraceptives and the morning-after pill. And in Montana, language for a proposed personhood ballot measure has also been approved. Read more now: http://www.ballot.org/pages/reproductive
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Ballot Initiative Strategy Center With anti-equality referenda officially on the Maine and Washington ballots this year, supporters of marriage equality are gearing up for the hard fought campaigns ahead. Read more now at: http://www.ballot.org/news/entry/1300/
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Washington Blade: Activists are gearing up for fights against anti-gay referenda that last week were made official in Maine and Washington state. In Maine, a “people’s veto” regarding the recently enacted same-sex marriage law will be on the ballot during the November election.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Maine's "Vote No on TABOR II" campaign launched last week. Need even more proof TABOR is bad for Maine? Former CO Republican State Sen. Steve Johnson discusses why TABOR was such a disaster for schools, health care and the economy below. Watch the video and keep checking our archive for more: http://www.ballot.org/video.
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Former Republican State Senator of Colorado, Steven Johnson, came to Maine to tell Colorado's story of TABOR. He talked about the lack of funding the state had because of cuts caused by TABOR and the hole the state is trying to dig itself out of now.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center The Vote No on 1/Protect Maine Equality campaign recently released TV ads in support of marriage equality. Watch the video below and check out more videos in our archive today: http://www.ballot.org/video.
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Meet Sam Putnam of Portland, who plays high school football and baseball, and is the pride and joy of his mother, Jennifer and her partner, Michelle. For Sam, it's pretty basic -- this is his family and he wants them to be valued and treated equally in Maine.
