Category: Ballot measures
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Signatures submitted for Colorado top-four primary and ranked-choice voting initiative
Colorado Voters First submitted signatures for an initiative that would establish top-four primaries and ranked-choice voting in Colorado. If 124,238 signatures are found valid, the initiative will appear on the ballot on Nov. 5, 2024. The initiative would establish top-four primary elections and ranked-choice voting general elections for the following offices: U.S. Senate, U.S. House…
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Signatures submitted for Colorado initiative that would provide funding to law enforcement agencies
Advance Colorado Action submitted signatures to the secretary of state on July 31, 2024, for an initiative that would create a new law enforcement fund. If 124,238 signatures are found valid, the initiative will appear on the ballot on Nov. 5, 2024. The initiative would direct the state legislature to appropriate $350 million to the…
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Colorado voters will decide on an initiative to prohibit the hunting of mountain lions, bobcats, and lynxes in November
The Colorado Secretary of State announced on July 21 that an initiative to define and prohibit trophy hunting had qualified for the Nov. 5 ballot. The initiative would define trophy hunting as “intentionally killing, wounding, pursuing, or entrapping a mountain lion, bobcat, or lynx; or discharging or releasing any deadly weapon at a mountain lion,…
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Michigan Supreme Court rules that the legislature cannot adopt and then amend indirect citizen-initiated measures during the same session
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the state legislature cannot adopt-and-amend indirect initiated state statutes, and that such actions in 2018 violated the Michigan Constitution. An indirect initiated state statute is a citizen-initiated ballot measure that amends state statute. While a direct initiative is placed on the ballot once supporters file the required number of…
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Voters in six states—CO, FL, MD, NV, NY, and SD—will be deciding on abortion in 2024, with measures proposed in five other states
Voters in six states—Colorado, Florida, Maryland, New York, Nevada, and South Dakota—will decide on abortion-related ballot measures in Nov. 2024. Initiatives are pending signature verification in five states—Arizona, Arkansas, Missouri, Montana, and Nebraska. This report provides the most recent updates on abortion-related ballot measure certifications and potential measures. Here is the status of abortion-related ballot…
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Advance Colorado Action submits signatures for three ballot initiatives addressing property taxes, parole eligibility, and a constitutional right to school choice
Advance Colorado Action, an issue advocacy organization that describes its mission as “supporting policies that increase economic opportunity and greater government transparency,” submitted signatures for three ballot initiatives for the November general election ballot. Nearly 200,000 signatures were submitted for each initiative. To qualify for the ballot, each initiative must receive 124,238 valid signatures. The…
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Oregon to vote on ballot initiative to increase corporate tax rate with additional revenue dedicated to citizen rebates
The Oregon Secretary of State announced on July 24 that Initiative #17, which would increase the corporate tax rate and dedicate additional revenue to citizen rebates, had qualified for the ballot. The campaign submitted 165,426 signatures on July 3 of which 122,276 were found to be valid. The required number of signatures to qualify an…
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Washington voters to decide on initiative that would prohibit restrictions on natural gas access
The Washington Secretary of State’s office certified that sponsors of Washington Initiative 2066 submitted the required 324,516 valid signatures for the initiative to appear on the Nov. 5 ballot. What would the initiative do? The initiative seeks to repeal changes made to state law by House Bill 1589, passed by the state legislature in March…
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Ohio voters to decide ballot initiative to establish the Citizens Redistricting Commission
An initiative that would amend the Ohio Constitution to create a Citizens Redistricting Commission will appear on the Ohio ballot on Nov. 5, 2024. The initiative would replace the current Ohio Redistricting Commission with the Citizens Redistricting Commission. Currently, the Ohio Redistricting Commission has seven members, including the Ohio House Speaker and Ohio Senate President,…
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Update on 2024 state ballot measure certifications: nine new measures and 27 pending signature verification
For 2024, 134 statewide ballot measures have been certified for the ballot in 39 states, two fewer measures than the average (136) for this point in the election cycle from 2012 to 2022. The average number of statewide ballot measures certified for an even-numbered year during this period was 157. Here’s an update on the…