Lawsuit challenges Idaho s new ballot initiative process
KEITH RIDLER, Associated Press
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) Two groups on Friday filed a lawsuit with the Idaho Supreme Court challenging the state s new law making it more difficult to get voter initiatives or referendums on ballots.
A group that has had previous ballot initiative success and another comprised of attorneys committed to defending Idaho’s Constitution filed the lawsuit against Secretary of State Lawerence Denney.
Reclaim Idaho and the Committee to Protect and Preserve the Idaho Constitution said the new law violates the state’s constitution because it makes the ballot initiative process impossible.
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Progressives cheered last year when voters in several red states approved left-leaning ballot initiatives.
Floridians voted to raise the minimum wage to $15. South Dakotans voted to legalize medical and recreational pot. Missourians voted to expand Medicaid to adults who earn under $18,000 a year. Arizonans voted to tax the rich to fund public schools.
But this year, Republican lawmakers in all those states â plus Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah and others â are trying to undermine such voter-approved measures and to make it harder for future ballot initiatives to pass. At stake is the power to make state laws.
Attacks on the initiative process have escalated, said Matthew Schweich, deputy director of state campaigns for the Marijuana Policy Project, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that in 2020 backed successful cannabis legalization campaigns in Montana and South Dakota.
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Campaign workers deliver boxes of initiative petition signatures to the Missouri secretary of state s office in Jefferson City. Some Republican lawmakers are now trying to make it harder for ballot initiatives to pass.
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Progressives cheered last year when voters in several red states approved left-leaning ballot initiatives.
Floridians voted to raise the minimum wage to $15. South Dakotans voted to legalize medical and recreational pot. Missourians voted to expand Medicaid to adults who earn under $18,000 a year. Arizonans voted to tax the rich to fund public schools.