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In many U.S. states, ballot measures may originate by several different processes: [4] Overall, 26 US states have initiative and/or veto referendum processes at the statewide level, [5] and all states have at least one form of legislatively referred processes: 49 states have at least a legislatively referred process to amend their constitutions ...
Voter referendum: An initiative to remove the MCAS test as requirement to graduate high school. [152] Voter referendum: An initiative to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers. [153] Voter referendum: An initiative to authorize the state auditor to audit the state legislature, and remove some existing regulations regarding the auditing ...
In all, there were 141 ballot measures on ballots across most U.S. states and the District of Columbia at any point throughout the year. There were no statewide ballot measures in 2022 for the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
In 2024, 326 bills related to initiative, referendum and recall were introduced in state legislatures and 33 of the bills were enacted (10.12%), including the four ballot measures to be decided on ...
For more than a century, the public has used the initiative and referendum process to change state law and the Constitution itself. Indeed, records show the Oklahoma Constitution — has been ...
Just days before the Secretary of State’s ballot certification deadline, a state initiative and referendum aiming to expand abortion access and strike down a school voucher program survived ...
In Maine, an initiative to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact began collecting signatures on April 17, 2016. It failed to collect enough signatures to appear on the ballot. [143] [144] In Arizona, a similar initiative began collecting signatures on December 19, 2016, but failed to collect the required 150,642 signatures by July 5 ...
changes the number of signatures required for initiative and referendum petitions State Question 751: Yes 740,918 75.54 239,904 24.46 adding a new Article to the Constitution. That Article would deal with the State's official actions. It dictates the language to be used in taking official State actions must be the English language.