Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) is an educational non-profit and the nerve center for progressive ballot initiative campaigns across the country. Ballot Initiative Strategy Center's website, www.ballot.org, is the most comprehensive, up to date, and user friendly place for information on ballot initiative campaigns.
One of the main components of our work is to advocate for an open and honest ballot initiative process. We strongly believe that all ballot measures campaigns--whether sponsored by conservative or progressive organizations, or petitioned through paid or volunteer signature gathering--should be required to play by the rules.
Starting in 2004, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) began receiving numerous complaints across the states about abuses in signature gathering. Over the last three election cycles there has been a dramatic jump in the use of signature fraud all across the country to qualify ballot initiatives. The problem has evolved from an unfortunate byproduct of the process to the standard operating procedure of the leading petition firms. BISC has been a national leader in the effort to safeguard the citizens' initiative process from being hijacked by those subverting democracy through illegal or misleading activity.
As a result of the dramatic increase in the number of states confronting initiative fraud and the growing volume of fraud in states that previously faced only a handful of cases, BISC launched www.stopballotfraud.org to track this growing threat to direct democracy. The new website contains the most up-to-date research on the pattern of fraud and deception perpetrated by ballot measure sponsors who have a history of abusing the direct democracy process.
