Democrats are girding for the same activity in the November election, with a countering strategy that includes broadening the voter base. Nebraskans for Better Wages, a local activist group, collected enough signatures for a ballot measure that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $9 an hour from $7.25. The signatures still must be verified.
“That vote is likely to bring a lot of people to the polls who are poor and not very well heeled,” said Holland, the Hassebrook campaign’s co-chairman who, state records show, sunk $350,000 into the ballot signature collection effort. “And that may be a tipping point” in the race.