In Arizona, a campaign supporting an initiative to increase the minimum wage to $18 per hour submitted signatures on July 3, 2024. Voters would decide on the ballot initiative on Nov. 5, 2024. Raise the Wage AZ, the campaign sponsoring the initiative, submitted 354,278 signatures to state officials. At least 255,949 signatures must be verified.…
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 also proposed in five additional states. On June 28, a ballot initiative to provide a state constitutional right to an abortion was certified for the ballot in Nevada. Around 128,000 signatures were verified…
Voters in North Carolina will join those in Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wisconsin in deciding a ballot measure to prohibit non-citizen voting. The ballot measures would amend language to their respective state constitutions to provide that only U.S. citizens can vote in elections. All seven ballot questions were placed on the Nov.…
Voters in Arizona will decide on a constitutional amendment regarding legal challenges to ballot initiatives on Nov. 5, 2024. The ballot measure, Senate Concurrent Resolution 1041 (SCR 1041), allows for the filing of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a proposed citizen-initiated measure after it has been filed with the secretary of state and at…
Voters in Arizona will decide on a constitutional amendment to allow businesses to pay tipped employees 25% less per hour than the minimum wage. The amendment would allow for tipped workers to be paid 25% less per hour than the minimum wage if any tips received by the employee were not less than the minimum…
For 2024, 118 statewide ballot measures have been certified for the ballot in 35 states, six more measures than the average (112) 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…
Voters in North Dakota approved Measure 1, a ballot initiative establishing an age limit for congressional candidates, at the election on June 11. The vote was 60.88%-39.12%, and turnout was 20.11%. Specifically, Measure 1 is designed to prohibit anyone from being elected or appointed to the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives if he or…
The Coalition to Protect Access to Care is sponsoring an initiative that would permanently authorize a tax on managed care organizations (MCO) based on monthly enrollees, which is set to expire in 2026, to fund Medi-Cal Health Care Services. The California Secretary of State announced on June 4 that it had qualified for the ballot…
Voters in 12 states could vote on abortion-related measures in Nov. 2024. Ballot measures are certified in four states—Colorado, Florida, Maryland, and South Dakota. Signatures are pending verification in two states—Missouri and Nevada. Measures have also been proposed in six other states. This report provides the most recent updates on abortion-related ballot measure certifications and…
Oklahoma voters will join Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, and Wisconsin voters in deciding on ballot questions to add language to their respective state constitutions to provide that only U.S. citizens can vote in elections. All six ballot questions were placed on the Nov. 2024 ballot by Republican-controlled state legislatures. Similar measures were on the…