Examining Trends in Legislative Repeal of State Ballot Initiatives

However, in some cases ballot initiatives are repealed by state legislatures after being approved by voters. This research paper asks the following question: ...

"The 'Will of the Voters': Examining Trends in Legislative Repeal of ...

However, in some cases ballot initiatives are repealed by state legislatures after being approved by voters. This research paper asks the following question: ...

Trends Watcher - Ballot Initiative Strategy Center

BISC is monitoring the ballot measure landscape as three issue trends lead the way: reproductive freedom, economic justice, and democracy.

Explainer: Shaping Democracy: 2023's Statewide Ballot Measures ...

Derek Clinger, Senior Staff Attorney PDF Available Here The past year saw a continued trend of increased interest in direct democracy, ...

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 ...

Ballotpedia's Top 15 Ballot Measures and Trends to Watch, 2024

The list order is based on topics or similar issues. Florida Amendment 4: Right to Abortion Initiative; Southwestern Swing States, Arizona and ...

Democracy Crisis in the Making

State legislators are proposing and passing bills that increase the risk of election subversion by giving partisan state legislators greater ...

Changes in 2024 to laws governing ballot measures - Ballotpedia

As of November 13, 39 bills had been enacted into law. One additional bill was vetoed. Of the 39 bills, five were proposed constitutional amendments passed by ...

AI and the Courts Will Factor in Next Year's Election Laws

Forecast '25: Other top issues for 2025 include noncitizen voting, ranked choice voting and anything related to election officials. By NCSL ...

Drugs, Guns, and Democracy: An Overview of Ballot Measures in ...

By Heather Trela. With Election Day 2022 just around the corner, attention has primarily been focused on control of Congress. Will the Democrats ...

Ballot measures are an important form of direct democracy - PBS

The truth is, our political system never rests, and that's particularly true for the scores of statewide and local ballot measure campaigns ...

Voters approve most abortion-rights measures in flurry of ballot ...

Voters backed the right to an abortion in at least six of the 10 states where the question was on the ballot Tuesday.

Ballot measures: How wording, ballot format and news coverage ...

As journalists prepare to cover elections, it's important they know how various factors can affect voters' decisions on ballot measures.

2024 State Legislative Trends Report - Quorum

While things in Congress are moving at a snail's pace, state legislators are moving faster than ever. We analyzed over 75,000 bills across the country to ...

Indirect Initiative and Unpopular Referendum in Missouri

The Missouri General Assembly is ignoring the will of the voters by placing. Amendment 3 on the 2020 general election ballot, COMMON CAUSE (last accessed. March ...

Multiple High Courts Uphold Voters' Right to Use Ballot Measures to ...

Decisions in California, Michigan, and Utah could serve as models for courts in other states facing power struggles between legislatures and ...

THE BALLOT MEASURE WARS August 2023 - Democracy Docket

However, as progressives successfully passed more progressive ballot measures, Republicans – and particularly when Republicans held a trifecta in state ...

Expanding the Court's First Amendment Accessibility Framework for ...

The ballot initiative process allows voters to present their state or local electorate with a proposal to enact a law or consti- tutional amendment.1 Twenty- ...

Featured, Explainers, Research & Explainers | State Democracy Research Initiative In 2022, voters in 38 states weighed in on 140 statewide ...

Statewide Ballots Measures: 2023 Recap and Anticipated Trends

An increasing amount of statewide ballot measures have been put to a vote in off-year elections. More than half of the 41 statewide ballot ...