Winning ballot initiatives
We’ve passed progressive ballot initiatives and voter referenda all across the country—even in red states—even while Republican candidates were winning elsewhere on the ballot. Our work has been recognized at the highest level, winning the AAPC award for ballot initiatives two years in a row for our victories in Kansas and Ohio on reproductive rights.
A coalition of trusted reproductive rights, health, and justice organizations worked to protect and expand abortion access. It formed an official partnership to pass an amendment that explicitly protects reproductive freedom for all in Ohio, the state constitution.
Through a carefully crafted policy initiative, the coalition passed a constitutional amendment that ensures comprehensive reproductive rights, safeguarding access to abortion, birth control, infertility treatment, and equitable birthing conditions. This policy provides access to abortion at a level Missourians have never had before.
Kansans for Constitutional Freedom was a bipartisan coalition of reproductive rights advocates and allied organizations that worked to defeat a constitutional amendment that would have removed the right to abortion from the state constitution and paved the way for a total ban on abortion in Kansas.
Illinois voters passed a ballot measure that ensured collective bargaining rights for workers, provided whistleblower protections, and provided first responders with additional training.
Voters approved the NY Equal Rights Amendment, which provides comprehensive protections against discrimination based on sex, including abortion, pregnancy outcomes like miscarriage and stillbirth, and reproductive health care autonomy. Additionally, it protects against discrimination based on disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, or national origin.
Idahoans for Healthcare passed a constitutional amendment that expanded Medicaid coverage for over 60,000 residents and brought nearly $400 million in federal funding back to Idaho.
The Protect Kentucky Access coalition defeated a ballot initiative in Kentucky that would have affirmed that the state constitution does not provide abortion protections.
Ohio voters defeated a ballot measure that would have increased the votes required to pass a constitutional amendment.
With the support of the Colorado Sierra Club, Broomfield, CO, voters passed a ballot measure restricting where toxic fracking can happen.