South Dakota Abortion Measure Qualifies for Ballot Despite Anti-Abortion Activists’ Bananas Efforts
South Dakota Abortion Measure Qualifies for Ballot Despite Anti-Abortion Activists’ Bananas Efforts
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i can't wait the state to respect this the way they respected the voters' wishes with marijuana legalization.
And minimum wage laws, and campaign finance laws, we show up to for the ballot measures, but not for the people in office.
Edit: or we're perfectly happy voting for people that go against our voting interests. It's horrible either way
I think the thing with marijuana is the amendment passed on a referendum and then was struck down. We’re minimum wage and campaign finance reform ballot initiatives?
I can't remember the specifics well enough to state anything as fact, I'm pretty sure we had something on campaign finance that disappeared after voter approval, and I know we had a ballot initiative on minimum wage that they reworked after the fact into something better than many places, but not quite what was voted on. Marijuana felt like they straight manipulated rules and it disappeared with their reasoning being that it technically was more than one rule at once.
Even if my poor explanations aren't great, I can state as a fact that our voter pool seems to not care at all that their elected officials don't give two shits about their interests. I know plenty actually do, but our averages voter just looks for the R