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Here are the top stories from the week of March 18-March 22.
A rundown of Tuesday’s battleground primary results
Illinois and Ohio held their statewide primaries on Tuesday, March 19.
The Ohio Republican Party’s central committee censured 22 Republican House members. Twelve of those censured incumbents faced primaries on Tuesday. Eight won and four lost.
We followed four battleground elections for U.S. House districts on Tuesday night, three in Illinois and one in Ohio.
- Incumbent Jesus Garcia (D) defeated Raymond Lopez (D) in the Democratic primary for Illinois’ 4th Congressional District.
- Danny K. Davis (D) defeated Nikhil Bhatia (D), Kina Collins (D), Melissa Conyears-Ervin (D), and Kouri Marshall (D) in the Democratic primary for Illinois’ 7th Congressional District.
- Derek Merrin (R) defeated Steve Lankenau (R) and Craig Riedel (R) in the Republican primary for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District.
- Incumbent Mike Bost (R) defeated Darren Bailey (R) in the Republican primary for Illinois’ 12th Congressional District.
The next statewide primary is in Pennsylvania on April 23.
West Virginia will be the first state to decide on a constitutional amendment prohibiting assisted death, also known as assisted suicide
On Nov. 5, West Virginia voters will decide on Amendment 1, which would prohibit people from participating in “the practice of medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of a person.” While several states have voted on ballot measures allowing assisted death, also known as assisted suicide or aid-in-dying, West Virginia is the first state where voters will decide to prohibit the procedure.
Assisted death is currently legal in 10 states—California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, as well as Washington D.C. Voters approved assisted death ballot measures in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington.
Sixteen new statewide measures certified for the ballot in the past two weeks
The last two weeks have been busy, with 16 ballot measures—including six citizen initiatives and 10 legislative referrals—certified in eight states.
So far this year, state election officials have certified 80 measures for the ballot in 30 states—four more than the average (76) for this point in the election cycle from 2012 to 2022. An average of 157 statewide measures were certified in even-numbered years between 2012 and 2022.
The next signature deadline is May 1, in Idaho, where two initiatives have been proposed—one to legalize medical marijuana, and another to create a top-four ranked-choice voting (RCV) system.