“The efforts from state legislatures to undermine democracy in our country make it harder for eligible voters to cast a vote, to have those votes counted, and to be able to elect lawmakers who reflect their values.”
Tori Schafer, deputy director for policy and campaigns at the ACLU of Missouri, whose attorney general tried to block a ballot initiative to ensure the right to abortion
“The avalanche of anti-LGBTQ bills we saw introduced in 2023 demonstrates how out of touch with the public many state legislators are,” said Naomi Goldberg, deputy director and LGBTQ program director at Movement Advancement Project. “We know that most Americans support LGBTQ people and protections against discrimination.” This includes. “These bills are indicative of a coordinated strategy by far-right politicians to score political points.
The anti-LGBTQ, anti-trans initiatives in Florida “pander to a very particular group of people within the governor’s [Ron DeSantis] voting base who do not understand the issues and are thus easily enraged and made fearful by the inaccurate rhetoric about LGBTQ+ identities,” said Simone Chriss, director of the Transgender Rights Initiative at Southern Legal Counsel, a statewide public interest law firm in Florida, and one of the organizations involved in the lawsuit, along with GLAD.
In Ohio, the Republican-led state legislature is pushing forward an amendment, Issue 1, that would raise the threshold for passing future amendments to the state constitution from a simple majority to a 60% supermajority; a special election is being held on August 8. The main target is the Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety amendment, which is on the November ballot and would add the right to make reproductive decisions, including abortion, to the state constitution.
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