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Each week, we bring you a collection of the most viewed stories from The Daily Brew, condensed. If you like this newsletter, consider signing up for The Daily Brew to wake up and learn something new each day.
Here are the top stories from the week of September 30 - October 4. |
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50 states in 25 days—let’s preview the country’s elections
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Election Day is fast approaching! As such, Ballotpedia began its election previews earlier this week. We will be covering 50 states in 25 days. In this week’s Brews we previewed elections in Minnesota, South Dakota, Virginia, Vermont, Illinois, Oregon, California, Maine, Indiana, and Montana. Check out Ballotpedia’s 2024 Election Previews at the link below. |
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Second ballot measure disqualified this year
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On Sept. 26, the Utah Supreme Court removed Amendment D, a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, from the Nov. 5 ballot. It was the second measure a state court has removed from the ballot this year.
The court ruled that the ballot language for Amendment D, which addressed legislative alterations of voter-approved initiatives, was misleading, and publication deadlines were missed. |
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Right-to-abortion ballot measure PACs reported 10 times more in contributions than opposition campaigns in 2024 so far
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In Wednesday’s Brew we took a look at campaign finance and the single-year record 11 abortion-related ballot measures.
Eleven Political Action Committees (PACs) describe themselves as pro-choice or pro-reproductive rights (hereafter, pro-choice campaigns), and 17 as pro-life (hereafter, pro-life campaigns).
Per the latest campaign finance reports, the pro-choice PACs raised $111.7 million and spent $69.1 million, while pro-life PACs raised $10.4 million and spent $4.93 million. In total, the pro-choice PACs raised 10.7 times more than pro-life PACs while reporting 14 times more in expenditures. |
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