Any practical advice is welcome.

Edit: After some research, the path seems to be basically this:

  1. Get state residents to contact their delegates asking them to draft and/or support a constitutional amendment that gives citizens power to submit ballot initiatives (that’s what we do not currently have in our state constitution).
  2. The legislature has to pass it by 2/3 in order for it to appear on the ballot (governor does not need to sign it for it to appear on the ballot)
  3. A simple majority of voters (> 50%) would have to vote “yes” on the proposed amendment on election day.

Sounds easy enough, but the last 4 ballot initiatives (all legislatively sponsored) were basically power grabs (thankfully none of them passed). Still, going to see if I can maybe get the ball rolling and channel my jealousy of other states into something productive.

  • Neato
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    121 month ago

    Anti Democratic state. No real advice on short term except moving. But that’s a big ask.

    • Admiral PatrickOP
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      61 month ago

      Yeah, and I’ve been keeping that as an option of last resort. For a number of reasons, I’m stuck here for the foreseeable future. Figured since that’s the case, I would at least continue trying to slow the descent into complete hellhole we’re on. 🙃