Vote no on all ballot propositions on November 5. These initiatives illustrate the defects of direct democracy; they circumvent representative institutions, deny minority populations fair representation, and enable moneyed interests rather than the people’s representatives to steer the direction of our state. It isn’t that elected or appointed officials are better than voters at making decisions; it’s that the process of decision making through representative democracy is more deliberative and equitable than through direct democracy.
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