The “No” campaign
A ballot measure threatening your interests can often emerge without warning. At other times, they come with valuable lead time.
No matter the setting, getting on the offensive quickly is critical. Strict deadlines frequently govern the opportunity to suggest ballot and fiscal summaries that can be vital to beating a ballot measure.
Timely and aggressive litigation over ballot summaries can also be instrumental to achieving a fairer presentation of the issue to the electorate and winning the campaign.
In helping you prevent ballot access or beating a proposition at the polls, a typical Ballot Measure Group, LLC scope of work could include the following:
- Analyzing the initiative for legal flaws
- Coordinating quantitative and qualitative public opinion testing on the measure to identify weaknesses, alternative ballot wording and potential competing measures
- Working to have the initiative petition rejected on technical grounds
- Coordinating the preparation and filing of suggested ballot language and fiscal estimates
- Drafting alternative ballot measures to compete with the adverse proposition
- Coordinating litigation over the form, ballot summary, fiscal estimate, signature validation counts and constitutional defects of the ballot question
- Counseling on compliance with federal, state, and local campaign finance laws and other legal requirements
- Preparing administrative complaints over the proponent’s campaign finance and other legal violations.
- Coordinating the preparation and filing of campaign finance, tax returns, corporate reports and overseeing related administrative compliance
- Assisting in assembling a multi-disciplinary campaign team to defeat the measure
- In some cases, assuming active management of the overall “No” campaign
