Year: 2024

  • 845 candidates answered Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey in 2023

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, January 24, Brew.  By: Mercedes Yanora Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: 845 candidates answered Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey in 2023 Here at Ballotpedia, we’ve asked candidates to take part in our Candidate Connection survey every year since 2018. Candidates’ responses help voters better understand how…

  • Economy and Society, January 23, 2024: State attorneys general continue pushback against federal ESG labor rule

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    ESG Developments this week Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics. In the states New Hampshire bills could prohibit ESG investing in public funds Republican legislators…

  • A look at Arizona’s 459 ballot measures since statehood

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    Since 1911, there have been 459 state ballot measures in Arizona. Voters approved 237 (51.63%) and defeated 222 (48.37%). Ballotpedia has a complete dataset of state ballot measures for Arizona, which became a state in 1912. The initiative and referendum were included in the state’s constitution, ratified in 1911, two months before statehood. Between 1911…

  • 85 candidates filed for congressional and statewide offices last week

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    Eighty-five people declared candidacies for congressional or statewide offices in the past week, 41 more than last week. All of these candidates declared before their state’s official filing deadline. Twenty-four of those candidates were Democratic, while 55 were Republican. Six are minor-party candidates or running in nonpartisan races. Fifty-one candidates are running for Congress, 29…

  • Stadium tax measure for Kansas City Chiefs and Royals will appear on the ballot for April 2, 2024

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    Voters in Jackson County, Missouri, will decide on a ballot measure to renew a sales tax that provides funding for stadium improvements for the Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals. Voters will decide the ballot measure on April 2, 2024. The Jackson County Legislature overrode a veto from County Executive Frank White on Jan.…

  • Alaska could reconsider ranked-choice voting this year

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    Welcome to the Tuesday, January 23, Brew.  By: Samuel Wonacott Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Initiative campaign to repeal ranked-choice voting in Alaska submits signatures In 2020, Alaska residents voted 50.55% to 49.45% to approve a measure adopting open top-four primaries and ranked-choice voting (RCV). This year, the state…

  • New York outpacing all states in advancing election legislation as 2024 sessions get underway

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    As of Jan. 19, 2024, legislators in New York have passed 24 election-related bills out of at least one chamber of the legislature, more than all other state legislatures combined. The legislation in New York covers a range of election-related topics including absentee ballot drop-boxes, maintenance of voter rolls, and oversight of election officials, workers,…

  • Illinois law requiring unemployment insurance taxes for contractors takes effect

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    Illinois House Bill 3301 took effect on January 1, 2024, amending Illinois’ Unemployment Insurance Act to update the definition of a newly hired employee to include independent contractors. The updated definition requires employers to pay state unemployment insurance taxes for contractors. House Bill 3301 passed the Illinois House on March 22, 2023, and the Senate…

  • Voters in San Francisco, California, will decide on seven local ballot measures on March 5

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    Voters in San Francisco, California, will decide on seven ballot measures on Mar. 5, 2024, including one bond measure, one charter amendment, four ordinances, and one declaration. The ballot measures concern topics related to housing bonds, allowing commercial spaces to be converted to residential properties without incurring a real estate transfer tax, local ethics laws,…

  • Before 2024 heats up, looking back at 2020/2022 US House data

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    Welcome to the Monday, January 22, 2024 Brew.  By: Juan Garcia de Paredes Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: 75 U.S. House incumbents had opponents who raised more than $1 million in 2022—that’s 19.53% of all incumbents who ran for re-election Campaign fundraising doesn’t mean everything, but it can be…