Two lawsuits have been filed against an Oklahoma law that limits the number of initiative petition signatures that can be collected from a single county.

Two proponents of State Question 836, which would change the primary election process in Oklahoma, have filed a lawsuit in the Oklahoma Supreme Court challengin ...

Oklahoma’s political leaders just made democracy a luxury item. Gov. Kevin Stitt may not have outlawed citizen-led ballot initiatives when he signed Senate Bill 1027 into law, but for the average ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A petition to recall San Francisco District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio over his support for closing the Upper Great Highway officially qualified for the ballot, the San Francisco ...

Dane Waters is head of the University of Southern California's nonpartisan Initiative and Referendum Institute. Mr. Waters, in your view, what's the role of this citizen ballot initiative in our ...

“With this ballot measure, we cannot do that,” she said. “So we have a 20-year guarantee that the cap that we’re putting on your property tax is going to stay for the 20 years, so in exchange for that ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A citizen ballot initiative could significantly change how people get health care coverage in Utah, if it can clear some big hurdles to get on the ballot next year. "We are ...

FENTANYL. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT LEADERS ARE RAMPING UP OPERATIONS TO CRACK DOWN ON DEALERS AND CARTELS. THEY ARE CALLING ON STATE LEADERS NOW TO FUND PROPOSITION 36. THAT’S THAT CRIME MEASURE ...

It wouldn’t have cost taxpayers a dime. It simply respected the different paths parties take to the ballot while preserving the financial accountability that filing fees are meant to ensure.

What’s more, they say that they, as elected officials, represent the true will of the people more than ballot initiatives do. In his opening speech on the first day of Utah’s legislative session in ...

A federal judge Wednesday approved a request by the Republican Party of Florida to help defend a new law that places additional restrictions on the state’s ballot-initiative process. The party ...