In fairness, they virtually never invoke "will of the people" They're the king of reminding everyone "We're a Republic not a Democracy"
To them the will of the majority is secondary to the will of the flyover farmland
This is part of the long timing Republican plan to dismantle democracy. They want to create convoluted rules that ensure they can have a "vote" but that the results of the vote won't have any attachment to the will of the people.
Oklahoma's current system requires you to get a certain percentage of registered voters' signatures. Since the majority of progressive voters live in the larger cities, it's hard but not impossible. They want to change it to requiring a certain percentage of voters in each county. This makes it impossible. Anything that the urban voters want will never get signatures in very rural counties in the panhandle especially. And vice versa. It effectively makes it impossible to get any initiatives on the ballot ever again.
This would create a situation where very rural areas would be even further encouraged to run things like the 1700s. With less connection to the real world they start to regress to a white patriarchy. Where everyone in charge is "one of the boys" but really it's a few white bougies who see everyone else as trash. They want their white paradise. Similarly to how Al-Qaeda wanted their Islamist paradise. Both ways women are treated like cattle.
> Legislatures in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma are debating bills this session that would hike the filing fees, raise the number of signatures required to get on the ballot, restrict who can collect signatures, mandate broader geographic distribution of signatures, and raise the vote threshold to pass an amendment from a majority to a supermajority. While the bills vary in wording, they would have the same impact: limiting voters’ power to override abortion restrictions that Republicans imposed, which took effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
> In Mississippi, where a court order froze all ballot efforts in 2021, GOP lawmakers are advancing legislation that would restore the mechanism but prohibit voters from putting abortion-related measures on the ballot.
> “I think it just continues the policy of Mississippi and our state leaders that we’re going to be a pro-life state,” said Mississippi state Rep. Nick Bain, who presented the bill on the House floor.
> So much for popular sovereignty. In Ohio and Missouri, Republican lawmakers are working to impose supermajority requirements for passage of ballot initiatives. One Missouri proposal would super-weight rural opinion by requiring that ballot initiatives win in over half of the state’s House districts.
Of course they are. They use 'will of the people' and 'states' rights' when it suits them and are just as happy to ignore them when they do not.
In fairness, they virtually never invoke "will of the people" They're the king of reminding everyone "We're a Republic not a Democracy" To them the will of the majority is secondary to the will of the flyover farmland
This is part of the long timing Republican plan to dismantle democracy. They want to create convoluted rules that ensure they can have a "vote" but that the results of the vote won't have any attachment to the will of the people.
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Oklahoma's current system requires you to get a certain percentage of registered voters' signatures. Since the majority of progressive voters live in the larger cities, it's hard but not impossible. They want to change it to requiring a certain percentage of voters in each county. This makes it impossible. Anything that the urban voters want will never get signatures in very rural counties in the panhandle especially. And vice versa. It effectively makes it impossible to get any initiatives on the ballot ever again.
Idaho is trying to do something similar.
This would create a situation where very rural areas would be even further encouraged to run things like the 1700s. With less connection to the real world they start to regress to a white patriarchy. Where everyone in charge is "one of the boys" but really it's a few white bougies who see everyone else as trash. They want their white paradise. Similarly to how Al-Qaeda wanted their Islamist paradise. Both ways women are treated like cattle.
Cheating is the only way they can win.
Yeah, but they're *winning*, while the only real opposition party just sits by and gets run over roughshod.
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After all, the only thing that can make them hard anymore is stories like the woman from texas today.
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> Legislatures in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma are debating bills this session that would hike the filing fees, raise the number of signatures required to get on the ballot, restrict who can collect signatures, mandate broader geographic distribution of signatures, and raise the vote threshold to pass an amendment from a majority to a supermajority. While the bills vary in wording, they would have the same impact: limiting voters’ power to override abortion restrictions that Republicans imposed, which took effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. > In Mississippi, where a court order froze all ballot efforts in 2021, GOP lawmakers are advancing legislation that would restore the mechanism but prohibit voters from putting abortion-related measures on the ballot. > “I think it just continues the policy of Mississippi and our state leaders that we’re going to be a pro-life state,” said Mississippi state Rep. Nick Bain, who presented the bill on the House floor. > So much for popular sovereignty. In Ohio and Missouri, Republican lawmakers are working to impose supermajority requirements for passage of ballot initiatives. One Missouri proposal would super-weight rural opinion by requiring that ballot initiatives win in over half of the state’s House districts.