ArizonaDefeat Anti-Reform Initiatives
Campaign Status: Active
The Policy
Defeat Props 133, 134, 136
Background
You can tell a movement is on the rise when those in power do everything they can to stop it. Following a groundswell of momentum for reform in the Grand Canyon State, lawmakers have passed legislation designed to stop that momentum in its tracks. Prop 133 was designed to lock in the existing primary system and make reforming the state’s primary system more difficult. Prop 134 would make the citizen’s initiative process more difficult by requiring signature gatherers to go to each legislative district and get signatures from 5% of the voting population, on top of existing signature requirements. Prop 136 would allow any entity including private citizens to bring a constitutional challenge to a proposed ballot initiative before it’s even brought to the ballot. All of these proposals are designed to make the initiative process more difficult and put more hurdles in the way of reform.
Who’s Involved?
We are endorsing a “No” on both questions, and are working with democracy advocates in the state like Better Ballot AZ and Progress AZ to spread the word.
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The Latest On This Campaign
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Why are legislators asking Arizonans to surrender the right to propose laws?
May 8 2024
Opinion: Let’s stand up to those who want us to sit down and keep quiet. Let’s defeat this anti-democracy ballot amendment in November.
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Republicans want to make it easier for lawsuits to block ballot initiatives
Mar 12 2024
The idea is the latest in a string of Republican-backed proposals over the past two decades that have sought to — in many cases, successfully — weaken the citizen initiative process that allows Arizona voters to legislate at the ballot box.
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Years of restrictions create hurdles, raise costs for citizen initiatives in Arizona
Aug 13 2023
During the past decade or so, Republicans established laws making it more expensive and difficult to get citizen initiatives and referenda on the ballot, and easier to kick them off the ballot.
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