The ABC News affiliate in Omaha has this story about a family that has volunteered with the Nebraska citizens' effort to allow the electorate to have its say on the legislature's death penalty repeal.
As the story points out, billionaire George Soros has donated $400,000 to the effort to deny giving the voters their say. I'm glad at least that he's such a fan of participatory democracy. If I'm remembering correctly, he and his allies were backers of getting the death penalty on the ballot for voters to have their say in California in 2012 (Prop 34). Perhaps the experience there (the death penalty won by a little less than half a million votes) convinced abolitionists that voters should be kept out of it.
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