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The technical name of these types of votes used internationally is referendum, but within the United States they are commonly known as ballot measures, propositions or ballot questions. The term referendum in the United States normally refers specifically to questions about striking down enacted law, known internationally as the popular referendum.
The term issue voting describes when voters cast their vote in elections based on political issues. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the context of an election, issues include "any questions of public policy which have been or are a matter of controversy and are sources of disagreement between political parties ."
Elections in Illinois are directly administered by 109 election authorities. Seven municipalities each have an election commission as the local election authority only within that municipality. Outside of those, the county clerk is the local election authority in 100 counties, and 2 counties have a separate election commission . [ 3 ]
Issue is a narrower category than heirs, which includes spouses, and collaterals (siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles). [2] This meaning of issue arises most often in wills and trusts. [3] A person who has no living lineal descendants is said to have died without issue. A child or children are first-generation descendants and are a subset of ...
(The Center Square) – The group Judicial Watch is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse federal court rulings that upheld Illinois’ law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted for 14 ...
Supermajority Democrats in the Illinois House moved quickly Wednesday to push through a change to state election laws that partially limits ballot access and adds three nonbinding referendums to ...
Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Republican’s role in ...
Bond Issue: Would issue $10 billion in bonds to fund construction and modernisation of public education facilities. Citizen-initiated statute : Increases minimum wage to $18 by 2026 [ 121 ] Legislatively-referred amendment : lowers vote threshold from 66.67% to 55% for local special taxes and bond measures to fund housing projects