<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="https://movetoamend.org/election-results-move-amend-initiative-resolutions-win-big">https://movetoamend.org/election-results-move-amend-initiative-resolutions-win-big</a><div><br></div><div><header>
<h1 id="page-title">Election Results: Move to Amend Initiative Resolutions Win Big</h1></header><div id="content"><div class="region region-content"><div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system"><div class="block-inner clearfix"><div class="block-content content"><article id="article-14165" class="article article-type-announcement clearfix" about="/election-results-move-amend-initiative-resolutions-win-big" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" role="article"><div class="article-content"><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-11-07T00:00:00-06:00">November 7, 2012</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>From Massachusetts to Oregon, Colorado to Illinois and Wisconsin, and Ohio to California, <a href="https://movetoamend.org/november-2012-ballot-measure-roundup">citizens throughout the country voted overwhelmingly yesterday for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment </a>to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s <em>Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission</em> ruling
and declare that only human beings – not corporations – are entitled to
constitutional rights and that money is not speech and campaign
spending can be regulated.</p><p>Residents in over 100 cities had the opportunity to vote on measures
calling for an end to the doctrines of corporate constitutional rights
and money as free speech, and in every single town the vote was
supportive. Often by an overwhelming margin.</p><p>In Eau Claire, WI the vote was 71% in favor of a measure stating,
"Should the US Constitution be amended to establish that regulating
political contributions and spending is not equivalent to limiting
freedom of speech, by stating that only human beings, not corporations,
unions, or PACs, are entitled to constitutional rights?"</p><p>In largely conservative Pueblo, Colorado, where the city newspaper
came out against the measure, residents still voted 65% in favor of Move
to Amend's resolution, placed on the ballot by County Commissioners.
Move to Amend volunteers in Massachusetts collected signatures to place
the constitutional amendment question before one third of the population
of their state. The "MA Democracy Amendment Question" passed by 79%.</p><p>Voters in Mendocino County, CA where volunteers collected signatures
to become the first California county to place a Move to Amend citizen's
initiative on the ballot, explicitly voted to "stand with the Move to
Amend campaign" by a 73% margin. Move to Amend resolutions also passed
in several towns in Illinois and Ohio and Oregon, all by similar
landslide margins.</p><p>Montana voters approved a state-wide resolution by 75%.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></p><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div>Another organization -- Common Cause -- put forward several measures
calling for simply overturning Citizens United and granting Congress
authority to regulate campaign spending. These measures also passed by a
wide margin. In the state of Colorado, the Common Cause measure passed
by 64% and in San Francisco approval was 80% and 72% in Richmond, CA.
The group's measure in Chicago passed by 74%. Common Cause was also an
active member of the MA Democracy Amendment Coalition.</div><p>Move to Amend's position is that the <a href="https://movetoamend.org/amendment" target="_blank">Constitutional amendment must go beyond simply overturning Citizens United</a>,
"There is no reason for us to shy away from a true and lasting
solution, rather than just band-aids," stated Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, a
member of the Move to Amend National Leadership Team. "In every single
community where Americans have had the opportunity to call for a
Constitutional amendment to outlaw corporate personhood, they have
seized it and voted yes overwhelmingly. Tuesday's results show that the
Movement to Amend has nearly universal approval. Americans are fed up
with large corporations wielding undue influence over our elections and
our legal system. Citizens United is not the cause, it is a symptom and
Americans want to see that case overturned not by simply going back to
the politics of 2009 before the case, but rather by removing big money
and special interests from the process entirely."</p><p>Move to Amend is a national coalition of hundreds of organizations and nearly 250,000 people. The organization also boasts over <a href="https://movetoamend.org/map/groups" target="_blank">150 local affiliates across the country</a>. The Resolve to Amend Campaign goal was to have 50 cities vote on the group's resolution.</p>
</div></div></div><section class="field field-name-group-audience field-type-group field-label-inline clearfix"><h2 class="field-label">Groups: </h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/ca-eureka">CA - Eureka</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/ca-fort-bragg">CA - Fort Bragg</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/ca-san-francisco">CA - San Francisco</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/ca-ukiah">CA - Ukiah</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/co-pueblo">CO - Pueblo</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/california">California</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/colorado">Colorado</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/il-chicago">IL - Chicago</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/il-elgin">IL - Elgin</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/il-wheaton">IL - Wheaton</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/illinois">Illinois</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/ma-boston">MA - Boston</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/ma-cape-cod">MA - Cape Cod</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/ma-fitchburg">MA - Fitchburg</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/ma-northampton">MA - Northampton</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/ma-salem">MA - Salem</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/mt-missoula">MT - Missoula</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/montana">Montana</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/or-ashland">OR - Ashland</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/or-corvallis">OR - Corvallis</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/or-eugene">OR - Eugene</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/ohio">Ohio</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/oregon">Oregon</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/us-national">U.S. - National</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://movetoamend.org/wisconsin">Wisconsin</a></div></div></section></div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>