Grassroots Mobilization for Electoral Reform in Maine

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This chapter highlights a passionate grassroots campaign in Maine focused on gathering signatures to end Super PACs. Led by a prominent state legislator, the effort received strong support from the public, particularly conservatives disillusioned with the electoral system, resulting in a significant number of signatures collected on election day.

On this episode, Lessig chronicles the next chapter in the story of the Maine initiative. We had an idea — based on FreeSpeechForPeople’s brilliant argument — for an initiative. And Mainers were excited about the idea. A poll showed overwhelming support for the initiative. We just needed to raise the funds to get the signatures gathered. That proved to be an enormous challenge — unsurprisingly, as our theory of victory included convincing the Supreme Court we were right. This episode tells the story of how we got the signatures gathered.