When you fill out your mail-in ballot for the November 2024 general elections, you’ll encounter four statewide initiatives. This section of the ballot may be slightly unfamiliar. The last time Washingtonians confronted a statewide voter initiative was four years ago. But the substance of these initiatives definitely won’t be. All four measures aim to amend or overturn recent state laws that Democratic lawmakers have hailed as landmark advancements against climate change, health inequality, and tax inequity.
The variance and slightly prosaic phrasing of the four initiatives bely their common origins as well as their hotly contested nature. Though one campaign, that for I-2066, is led by a group called
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