Karine Jean-Pierre is the senior adviser and national spokeswoman for MoveOn. She is also a lecturer in international and public affairs at Columbia University. The views expressed here are solely hers. View more opinion articles on CNN.

(CNN) 2018 isn't just shaping up to be a blue wave -- it has also become a ballot measure wave.

Karine Jean-Pierre

In ballot measure after ballot measure in the midterm elections, voters of all parties showed that when they get to weigh in directly on the issues rather than choosing candidates, they often vote for progress: for love, not hate; for inclusion, not division.

For example, while gubernatorial and Senate races in Florida are still mid-recount, the results of the Amendment 4 campaign in that state were clear on election night. Florida voters voted handily to restore voting rights to formerly incarcerated people who have served their time and paid their debts to society, effectively re-enfranchising 1.4 million formerly incarcerated Floridians

It's hard to overstate just how critical a win this is for fair elections, criminal justice reform, and decency. It's harder to overstate how easily the measure won -- with a massive, bipartisan margin of victory.

Given the unjust racial disparities in our nation's mass incarceration system -- black and brown people are more likely to be arrested, prosecuted and given harsher sentences than white people for the same drug crimes, even though white people commit them at the same rates -- this is a huge win for racial justice, and a huge blow to Florida Republicans' voter suppression strategy.