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  • A rundown of Tuesday’s battleground primary results

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    Welcome to the Thursday, March 21, Brew.  By: Mercedes Yanora Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: A rundown of Tuesday’s battleground primary results  Illinois and Ohio held their statewide primaries on Tuesday, March 19. Here’s a rundown of some of the battleground primaries we covered: In Ohio House elections, eight…

  • First ballot measure vote to prohibit assisted death, also known as assisted suicide, in a state constitution

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, March 20, Brew.  By: Ethan Sorell Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: 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…

  • Washington’s Democratic-controlled Legislature approves historic number of GOP-backed ballot initiatives

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    Welcome to the Tuesday, March 19, Brew.  By: Andrew Kronaizl Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Washington’s Democratic-controlled Legislature approves historic number of GOP-backed ballot initiatives Washington legislators approved three citizen initiatives into law this legislative session—the most ever for a single year. From 1912, when the state’s initiative process…

  • Three U.S. House incumbents in Ohio are facing primary challengers this year—a decade-low

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    Welcome to the Monday, March 18, Brew.  By: Briana Ryan Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Three U.S. House incumbents in Ohio are facing primary challengers this year—a decade-low Illinois and Ohio are holding primaries for congressional and state offices tomorrow. On Friday, we looked at upcoming elections in Illinois.…

  • What’s on the ballot next week in Illinois

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    By: Samuel Wonacott Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Clarification: In the March 13 Brew, we wrote that the Alaska Repeal Top-Four Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative was certified for the Nov. 5, 2024, general election ballot. We should have said the initiative qualified for the ballot. While the initiative will appear…

  • What we know about the 138 local ballot measures Californians decided on March 5

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    Welcome to the Thursday, March 14, Brew.  By: Mercedes Yanora Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: What we know about the 138 local ballot measures Californians decided on March 5 Voters decided on 138 local ballot measures during California’s March 5 statewide primary. We’ve highlighted the results from 11 notable…

  • RCV repeal measure certified for November ballot in Alaska

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    Welcome to the March 13, 2024 Brew.  By: Ethan Sorell Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Alaska Set to Vote on Ballot Measure to Repeal Top-Four Ranked-Choice Voting in November In January, we looked at a campaign to repeal ranked-choice voting (RCV) in Alaska. At the time, the campaign had…

  • Comparing Biden and Trump’s recent endorsements in top and down-ballot races

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    Welcome to the Tuesday, March 12, Brew.  By: Mercedes Yanora Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Comparing Biden and Trump’s recent endorsements in top and down-ballot races  Both President Joe Biden (D) and former President Donald Trump (R) made endorsements in recent primaries. Let’s take a look at how they…

  • Busiest ballot measure certification week of the year so far

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    Welcome to the Monday, March 11, Brew.  By: Briana Ryan Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Update on this year’s and next year’s ballot measure certifications So far, last week was the busiest yet for ballot measure certifications in 2024. As of March 7, 73 statewide measures have been certified…

  • 46% of the elections Ballotpedia covered in February were uncontested

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    Welcome to the Friday, March 8, Brew.  By: Samuel Wonacott Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Forty-six percent of the elections Ballotpedia covered in February were uncontested  As part of Ballotpedia’s growing coverage of the nation’s local elections (with a goal of eventually covering all of them), we will be…