***Right now Ohio is trying to protect abortion as a ballot measure. If you are from Ohio, please sign that petition. This is not a veto referendum I just wanted to include it.***
Before you get your hopes up for veto referendum as a path, by the end I realized that we first need progressive people to run for office and get elected.
Roe v. Wade Action Plan
Hello everyone!
I have gathered you all in this email thread to figure out how we can veto some laws.
I was wondering if it would be possible to have citizens print out petition pages and mail them in.
Is there anyone who has experience with petitions who knows about the specific requirements for a petition signature to be valid?
Prioritze:
Arizona
North Dakota
Missouri- abortion
Oklahoma - abortion
Idahoe-abortion
South Dakota
Wyoming
Utah
Montana
Oregon
Nevada
Colorado
Michigan
Ohio
California
Maine
Washington
Oregon
New Mexico
Nevada
Looks like there are about 13 states total that you could contact about.
Veto referendums from 2022:
California Prop 31
Massachusetts Question 4?
Veto referendums from all years:
Hi everyone! (Write a specific one for each city and post on reddit)
Lately we've been having a lot of terrible legislation getting passed across the country, on everything from banning abortion, criminalizing free speech, and taking away rights from LGBT people.
The state of _______ has a citizen veto referendum process, where voters like you can veto laws you don't agree with. The veto means the legislation will be stalled and voted on as a proposition. You need _____ signatures within ____ days for the veto to pass.
I'm making a website to track legislation and collect signatures- you can check the website here and sign up to receive text messages on upcoming legislation here.
Please share this with friends and family.
Advertise on:
Welcome to Gilead
Rural Democrats
Individual cities
All progressive US political groups
Hello! I’m thinking about organizing a veto referendum group to stop anti-human rights legislation from being passed. Because it is required that signatures are in person, I was wondering if your organization could provide support as a resource for petition circulators and as a site where people can make signatures? In addition, do you know of any other organizations that could assist in these efforts? I’d like to have as many locations as possible to increase accessibility.
****look up which organizations have lead petitions in the past and contact them ******
-do you need support or can you do on your own:
-understanding the veto referendum process specific to your state
-becoming qualified to circulate petitions
X ACLU
Sunrise https://www.sunrisemovement.org/find-a-sunrise-hub-near-you/ (just enter your email and it will show you. I put gen email.)
Human Rights campaign https://www.hrc.org/get-involved
Go through this page. You can to click to find each one individually
Planned Parenthood Political Action (looks like individuals)
(Someone said they contacted a one or two of these orgs for a seperate project and they didn't get back to them.)
LinkedIn post
#’s
LGBT
Lgbt rights
Transgender
Transgender rights Abortion
Roevwade
Womens rights
Feminism
Government
Petition
TAG SOME ACTIVISTS
The states in blue below have a veto referendum process, where citizens can veto legislation to instead be voted on as a proposition.
We’ve had a lot of states passing legislation to take away women’s rights, LGBT rights, and human rights in general.
Has anyone thought about organizing a national veto referendum group to get this organized? Would veto referendums interfere with the work of people suing their state?
If you are interested in helping organize something, please contact me. If you are not interested in helping but have information to share on how to get the process going that would help.
I’m reposting as I accidentally posted this on a weekend instead of a weekday.
Transgender Law Center
National Center for Transgender Equality
Center for Reproductive Rights
Some individual state research: Idaho:
Idaho:
Idaho elector definition:
I looked up the bill to see which legislators voted for it and against it.
These people voted against it. Now I’ll see if any of them can be allies in the process.
Burgoyne, Nye, Semmelroth, Stennett, Ward-Engelking, Wintrow
If you turn the brightness up you can scroll and see behind the pop-up.
They said it wouldn’t be possible even if you had a five million dollar budget. It looks like the main issue is organizing, since that takes work and a five million dollar budget would help with that. I’m assuming it’s for organizing, possibly because the percentage of voters required is higher than the percentage of people who would voluntarily do it rather than get contacted by a person whose paid to find them, but overall not sure exactly what the budget is for.
The last referendum got passed because it was done by ?I think it said teachers union? So they had stuff organized in every county. The biggest problem with the referendums is that after people do it, states retaliate and make it more difficult.
Maybe what we need to focus on is organizing, at least for red states, then get to work.
All this ties together- people voting, people organizing, etc. I think people are worried about getting hurt if they run so we need to make a list of what places are safe to run, and what places aren’t, and why so people understand the risks. They should also be informed how to reduce the risks. This is especially important since I’ve heard of democrats getting arrested.
I think we also need to make a list of what and where positions have succumbed to the oligarchy, and which ones still have opportunity for a difference to be made, since people often say voting/running doesn’t matter because of rich people,
This is making me think we need to collaborate with an organization dedicated to democracy.
Arizona
This document about 70 pages long and has some heavy language. However, there are some portions that lay out some pretty great step-by-step instructions that would make it easier to go through the process. I think some portions of this might translate to processes in other states so it would be valuable to look through.
Arizona seems to have had similar issues as Idaho in terms of getting referendums passed. They spent 5 million on getting signatures for it, and it was struck down. https://news.ballotpedia.org/2022/04/26/arizona-supreme-court-rules-against-veto-referendum-to-challenge-state-income-law/
Nebraska
This document is pretty simple and easy to skim, not really detailed.
The Nebraska death penalty ordeal was really interesting/depressing. https://ballotpedia.org/Nebraska_Death_Penalty_Repeal,_Referendum_426_(2016)
Basically it got kicked back and forth by different branches of government, then the people did veto referendums to keep it. So definitely an example of how people can use referendums to promote conservative causes.
But I think the fact that it was successful showed that there’s potential there.
After having done the research, the best move would be to protect the veto referendum process so conservative legislators can't punish citizens for organizing. The best way to do this would be for progressive people to run for office, and to organize to increase voter turn out especially since people with disabilities, people who are black, immigrants, and democrats in red areas have had their voting rights attacked.
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