Voting rights
VOT-SUP-001
State-Level Ballot Blockade: The War on Direct Democracy
Active entrenchment
Following successful citizen-led referendums on abortion rights, Republican legislatures in Arkansas, Florida, and the Dakotas enact sweeping restrictions on the ballot initiative process. New laws impose criminal penalties on canvassers, mandate impossible geographic thresholds, and require photo ID for signatures, effectively neutralizing the only mechanism citizens have to bypass captured legislatures.