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  2. Initiatives and referendums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Called Popular referendum, or alternatively Veto Referendum, Citizen referendum, Statute referendum, Statute remand, People's veto, or Citizen's veto, in which a predetermined number of signatures (typically lower than the number required for an initiative) qualifies a ballot measure for voting on repealing or not a specific state law. 23 ...

  3. Referendums by country - Wikipedia

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    The Referendum Act was promoted and introduced by the Democratic Progressive Party for years and then enacted by the Legislative Yuan in 2003. There had been six national referendums and two local referendums in Taiwan before several sections of the Referendum Act were revised to lower the threshold in December 2017. No national referendum had ...

  4. What to know about noncitizen voting and the November ... - AOL

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    Here's an explanation of the referendum question, what noncitizen voting is, the groups on both sides of the referendum question, and why there have been so many referendum questions on Wisconsin ...

  5. Progressive Era - Wikipedia

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    Evangelicals precipitated the second wave of prohibition legislation during the 1880s, which had as its aim local and state prohibition. During the 1880s, referendums were held at the state level to enact prohibition amendments. Two important groups were formed during this period. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was formed in 1874 ...

  6. 2014 Scottish independence referendum - Wikipedia

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    Voting for the referendum commenced on 27 August 2014, with the receipt of ballots by postal voters. As of 15 August, 680,235 eligible voters had registered for postal voting, a 20% increase compared with March 2014. [64] During the postal vote phase, Police Scotland arrested a man from Glasgow on suspicion of selling his vote on eBay. [65]

  7. Recall election - Wikipedia

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    A recall election (also called a recall referendum, recall petition or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended.

  8. Referendum - Wikipedia

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    A referendum, plebiscite, or ballot measure is a direct vote by the electorate (rather than their representatives) on a proposal, law, or political issue. [1] A referendum may be either binding (resulting in the adoption of a new policy) or advisory (functioning like a large-scale opinion poll).

  9. Poll: Rare bipartisan support for reforming California's ...

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    Voters across party lines say people paid to gather signatures should be required to sign a statement that they've given accurate information and that the names of the top three funders be made ...