A federal judge in Tallahassee mostly denied requests to block parts of a new Florida law revising rules for ballot initiatives.

Voters in 24 states and the District of Columbia can bypass their legislatures by gathering signatures to get proposed laws or constitutional amendments on the ballot. But about 40 bills in roughly a ...

Florida, which late last week became the latest state to enact stricter rules around the process, is already facing a lawsuit over whether imposing more restrictions on the ballot initiative ...

Ron DeSantis that erects even more barriers to getting citizen initiatives on the ballot. Florida Decides HealthCare said in a press release that the new law is unconstitutional and ...

TALLAHASSEE — Nearly every spring the same battle plays out in the Florida Legislature over citizen-driven ballot initiatives, those measures that over the years asked voters whether to protect ...

Ballot initiatives are one way for voters to get issues that matter to them enshrined in law, especially if lawmakers aren't interested in taking them on in local legislatures. But, efforts in ...

Citizen activists supporting a public vote on important issues could have to brush up on their reading, writing and arithmetic if they want to get their initiatives on next year’s ballot in some ...