BCR has considerable experience dealing with issues in successful ballot campaigns. The toughest thing to do is to convince voters to raise their own taxes. But we have helped groups win tax increases for the Milwaukee Area Technical Colleges; public libraries in Jefferson County, Kentucky and the public hospital in King County, Washington.

In 2006, BCR helped Minnesotans for Better Roads and Transit pass an amendment to the state constitution to dedicate fees from license tag sales to mass transit and highway construction and repair.
 
Working with the League of Women Voters, ACORN and the Fund for Public Interest Research, we helped win referenda in Missouri, Montana and Oregon that established limits on corporate and individual campaign contributions.
 
BCR also helped pass an initiative in Maine that established public funding of political campaigns. In Manchester, New Hampshire, we worked with the National Education Association to defeat a proposal to privatize public schools in the city. In Massachusetts, BCR helped the AFL-CIO defeat a referendum that would have abolished the state prevailing wage law.