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Challenging Ballot Measures

In 2008, BISC's Ballot Integrity Program highlighted the need for proactive measures against ballot threats to the progressive community. With $100 million spent on defense, the focus is on reducing risks before initiatives qualify. Key strategies include pre-qualification plans, legal challenges, and infrastructure reform to combat fraud. Understanding the opposition's resources, timing, and successful case studies from previous years are critical. This program emphasizes building alliances and leveraging media while preparing to counteract potential future challenges.

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Challenging Ballot Measures

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  1. Challenging Ballot Measures New Strategies from BISC’s Ballot Integrity Program

  2. 2008: $100 Million Spent for Defense

  3. But It Could Have Been a Lot More

  4. The Goals of Ballot Integrity • Reduce the threats to the Progressive Community before they qualify • Pre-Qualification Plans • Legal Challenges • Change the infrastructure conducive to fraud • Legislative and regulatory reform • Building OUR infrastructure

  5. Pre-Qual: Is It for You? • Timeline • Is the timeline short enough that fraud will be a factor? • Opposition Resources • Can the bad guys overwhelm your effort? • Polling • Would you spend less to defeat the measure than you would to stop it from qualifying? • National Picture of Petitioner Movement • Which states are behind you in line?

  6. Pre-Qual: Tales of Success in 2006

  7. Pre-Qual: Tales of Success in 2008

  8. Pre-Qual Case Studies

  9. Case Studies • Successful Strategies • Opposition research and earned media reframing the debate around the proponents of conservative initiatives • Utilizing delay tactics and leveraging relationships with key elected officials • Why Some Don’t Work • Pre-qualification programs are only as good as the existing laws in any particular state • What May Be a Problem in the Future? • Case law is invalidating many of the protections that state’s currently employ to fight fraud • Some elected allies are uncomfortable with changing the system

  10. Opposition Reaction • Starting Earlier to Fight Our Delay Tactics • Pushing Back Using Paid and Earned Media During Pre-Qualification • Hidingthe Money Behind These Initiatives • What Might They Do Next? • Begin to push their own reform efforts that would negate pre-qualification programs • Bring in good government groups as their allies

  11. StopBallotFraud.org

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