GOP-led states are passing new restrictions for voters to get issues on the ballot

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GOP-led states are passing new restrictions for voters to get issues on the ballot

Mark Johnson, a Republican state senator in Arkansas, was attending a festival in his district last year when he came across people gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure that would protect abortion rights in the state.\"They said this was about women's health,\" he recalled. \"And I said, 'Oh, really?' … They didn't make clear what it was. I knew exactly what it was because I had read it very carefully.\"The abortion measure ultimately didn't make the ballot, but this year, Johnson and others in the state's Republican-led legislature passed a bill requiring that the title of a proposed ballot ..