Ida Canepa Ballasiotes (May 25, 1936 – November 23, 2014) was an American politician from the state of Washington.
Born in Rochester, New York, Ballasiotes moved with her family to Phoenix, Arizona.
Ballasiotes received her bachelor's degree from University of Puget Sound and worked in human resources.
In 1993, she filed Initiative 593, which was approved at the ballot and became the first three-strikes law in the nation.
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