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keithbvadu2

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4. "They would put proposals on the ballot to give themselves greater authority..."

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Nov 8, 2023, 07:58 PM

Nov 2023

Putting issues on the ballot (or not) can be used to do a workaround if other methods do not 'get it your way'.

Folks will use available tools for their cause but can change their minds if it is not helpful to their cause.

Rick Santorum::: “Thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot because pure democracies are not the way to run a country,” he said:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218437672

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"They would put proposals on the ballot to give themselves greater authority..." keithbvadu2 Nov 2023 #4