GOP state lawmakers try to restrict ballot initiatives

The Increasing Trend of Lawmakers Overriding Ballot Initiatives

Legislatures and governors are not afraid of undermining — or even downright repealing — citizen initiatives that win at the ballot box.

As abortion measures loom, GOP raises new barriers to ballot ...

Roused by voters' recent endorsement of abortion rights, Republican legislators in Ohio as well as Florida, Missouri, Idaho, Oklahoma, ...

Failed GOP attempt to keep abortion off Missouri ballot could ...

While attempts to remove the abortion rights amendment from the ballot were rejected, they could foreshadow fights to come if Amendment 3 ...

Ohio voters are deciding if it's too easy to pass ballot measures ...

Ohioans over the last century have used the state's ballot initiative process to pass constitutional amendments that raised the minimum wage ...

Despite GOP headwinds, citizen-led abortion measures could be on ...

As many as 11 states could get to vote directly on whether to increase access to abortion come November, thanks to ballot initiatives mostly ...

Lawmakers Look To Restrict Ballot Initiative Process in Florida ...

Just one week into 2023 legislative sessions, Republican lawmakers across the country are looking to curtail the ballot initiative process, ...

Arizonans defeat three GOP measures that would have restricted ...

Republican lawmakers in Arizona placed a slew of constitutional amendments on the ballot this fall to limit the recourse available to voters to ...

Voters supported progressive policies on ballot initiatives ...

Progressive policies like pot legalization and Medicaid expansion became law through ballot initiatives. Now some Republican-led states are working to limit ...

Arizona Republicans Set Up a Ballot Measure to Squash Future ...

Prop 134, a measure placed on the November ballot by GOP lawmakers, would severely restrict direct democracy through strict geographic requirements on ballot ...

Voters Challenged to Narrow Their Own Power to Change State Law

There's a history of legislatures trying to limit the voter initiative process. But the political stakes are particularly high in ...

Voting laws proposed by Republicans in 43 states would limit voter ...

How GOP- backed voting measures could create hurdles for tens of millions of voters. At least 250 new laws have been proposed ...

Missouri Republicans sue to block abortion rights ballot measure

Two Missouri Republican lawmakers and an anti-abortion activist are suing to block an abortion rights amendment from the ballot.

Why Republican Voters Support Ballot Initiatives Their Red States ...

When Kansas voters earlier this month rejected a ballot initiative that would have made it easier for the state legislature to restrict or ...

Republicans Move to Limit a Grass-Roots Tradition of Direct ...

Through ballot initiatives, voters in red states have defied legislators' wishes and produced liberal outcomes in recent years. Republicans ...

Ohio Republicans' Devious Plot to Stop Voters From Legalizing ...

The fight over reproductive rights in the Buckeye State begins with an August special election on an obscure ballot measure.

'Can't Win, So They Cheat': GOP Tries to Keep Abortion Rights Off ...

"Republican lawmakers pushing these efforts want 41% of voters to block ballot initiatives that 59% of voters support.

Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 presidential ...

Following the 2020 United States presidential election and the unsuccessful attempts by Donald Trump and various other Republican officials to overturn it, ...

Republican lawmakers push litany of changes to Missouri voting laws

Republicans want to ensure that only U.S. citizens can vote, but the Missouri Constitution and voting requirements from the secretary of state's ...

Voters in at Least 10 States Are Trying to Protect Abortion Rights ...

GOP Officials Are Throwing Up Roadblocks. Republican officials are undermining citizen-led ballot initiatives that seek to protect the procedure ...

Making Health Policy Through State Ballot Initiatives

Direct democracy processes play an important role in state policy making related to the myriad drivers of population health and health ...