An abortion rights initiative in South Dakota receives enough signatures to make the ballot
By JACK DURA Associated Press Supporters of an abortion rights initiative in South Dakota have submitted far more signatures than required to make the ballot this fall. The signatures were turned in Wednesday, but the measure’s outcome is unclear. South Dakota is a conservative state, and Republican lawmakers have strongly opposed it. The effort also
By JACK DURA Associated Press Supporters of an abortion rights initiative in South Dakota have submitted far more signatures than required to make the ballot this fall. The signatures were turned in Wednesday, but the measure’s outcome is unclear. South Dakota is a conservative state, and Republican lawmakers have strongly opposed it. The effort also
(The Center Square) – The orchestrated parade of rental trucks delivering bank boxes of signed petitions to the Missouri secretary of state’s office ended on Friday, the final business day before a May 5 constitutional deadline. Organizations desiring to get a measure on the November ballot gathered signatures for the last few months. Signatures of 8% of legal voters in any six of Missouri’s eight congressional districts, or approximately 171,000 voters, must be gathered and...
A proposed amendment to enshrine abortion access in Missouri’s constitution cleared a key hurdle Friday to appear on the ballot this year after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates submitted the required number of valid signatures to state officials. Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the group leading the ballot effort, announced it had collected signatures from more than 380,000 registered voters — more than the approximately 172,000 it needed to move forward with the process of...
By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says it submitted enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election. If Solano County elections officials agree, voters in the San Francisco Bay Area county will decide whether
The Washington Post spotlights the underdog effort to get signatures for a ballot initiative to protect abortion rights and the challenges they face in dead-red Arkansas.
A campaign to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri’s constitution said it collected more than twice the likely total needed to qualify for the ballot.
People in Missouri protest the state’s eight-week abortion ban in May 2019. Missouri has since passed a total abortion ban. Photo: Shutterstock On Friday, after months and months of laughable barriers, Missouri abortion rights organizers submitted 380,000 signatures in a major step toward getting an abortion rights measure on the November ballot. 380,000 is over double the 172,000 signatures required by May 5 (Sunday), though the secretary of state's office will still have to validate them....
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South Dakota advocates submitted petitions Wednesday in their effort to amend the state constitution to include the right to abortion, at least under some circumstances. Signatures are also expected to be turned in Friday in Missouri for a ballot measure there. The efforts in both states are part of a movement to put abortion rights questions to voters since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and removed the nationwide right to abortion. OUTSPOKEN PRO-ABORTION GOVERNOR GETS SPEAKING...
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