Tag: Ballot Bulletin

  • Finalized Nov. 3 ballot measures: election policy, marijuana, and tax trends; campaign finance records; unique measures on wolves, mushrooms, state flag design, and more

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    One hundred and fifteen statewide ballot measures will appear on November 3, 2020, ballots in 32 states, barring further court-ordered changes. Together with eight pre-November ballot measures, 123 statewide measures will go before voters in 2020. This is 29% less than the average of 173 statewide measures in even-numbered years from 2010 through 2018. Forty-three…

  • Zuckerberg, Chan donate $300 million for state, local election administration efforts

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    On Sept. 1, Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced they would donate a combined total of $300 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life and the Center for Election Innovation and Research in a bid "to promote safe and reliable voting in states and localities during…

  • New Jersey automatically sending mail-in ballots to all voters in the general election

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    On Aug. 14, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) issued an executive order establishing that the Nov. 3 general election will be conducted "primarily via vote-by-mail ballots." Election officials will automatically deliver mail-in ballots to all active registered voters in advance of the election. Murphy's order makes the following temporary modifications to New Jersey's election administration procedures:…

  • Nevada to mail ballots to all voters ahead of Nov. 3 general election

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    On Aug. 3, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) signed AB4 into law, directing election officials to automatically send mail-in ballots to all active registered voters in the Nov. 3 general election. How did the bill become law? The legislation was introduced in the Nevada Assembly on July 31 and referred to the Committee of the…

  • States begin modifying general election voting procedures in response to COVID-19 outbreak

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    With the primary election season coming to a close, election administrators across the country are turning their attention to Nov. 3, modifying voting procedures in response to the continued effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. To date, at least 21 states have modified voting procedures for the Nov. 3 general election. Six states (Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts,…

  • A closer look at Louisiana's unique electoral system

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    In Louisiana, the candidate qualifying period opens on July 22 and closes on July 24. With the filing period upon us, the time is ripe for examining Louisiana's one-of-a-kind system in greater depth, and for introducing Ballotpedia's preferred term for the system: Louisiana majority-vote system. How do elections work in Louisiana? Louisiana's electoral system for…

  • Recent SCOTUS actions involving COVID-19 and elections

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    On June 25 and June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to intervene in two lawsuits involving COVID-19 and election administration. The first was a suit out of Ohio involving remote signature gathering for ballot initiatives. The second was a suit out of Texas dealing with absentee voting eligibility. Thompson v. DeWine…

  • Ballot Bulletin: Super Junesday voter turnout

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    June 2 primaries mark highest concentration of voting activity since March  On June 2, nine states held statewide primary elections (and the District of Columbia conducted its district-wide primary). This represented the busiest single day of voting since March 3. The reason? The COVID-19 outbreak prompted a series of election postponements and other modifications.      How…

  • Louisiana parishes to vote on sports betting in November

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    On June 12, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D) signed Senate Bill 130 (SB 130) that will ask the voters in each of Louisiana's 64 parishes whether or not to authorize sports betting within the parish. If a majority of voters in a parish support authorizing sports betting, sports betting would be allowed in the…

  • California Assembly passes bill for ballot measure to repeal Proposition 209, which banned considering race and sex in public jobs, education, and contracting in 1996

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    On June 10, the California State Assembly passed a constitutional amendment to repeal Proposition 209, which received 54.55 percent of the vote in 1996. Proposition 209 prohibited the state from considering race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. In California, a two-thirds vote is…