The predicament has its origins on last November’s ballot, when Angelenos approved a sweeping plan to reorganize their ...

In the 2022 midterm elections, Republican state legislators attempted to stigmatize abortion with a ballot initiative intended to interfere in the pregnant patient-physician relationship.

The state has categorically barred entire classes of people from participating in the core political speech that is central ...

Signing an initiative petition for a state ballot measure is not grounds to remove someone from a list of inactive voters. HB 201: Signed into law.

Lawmakers in about a dozen states have advanced roughly 40 measures this year that would restrict or revamp the citizen initiative process. Many of the new provisions come from Republican lawmakers.

Go. Mike Kehoe signed legislation to ban the foreign funding of ballot issue campaigns, making Missouri the ninth state to do ...

Arizona voters will decide next November whether to designate drug cartels operating across the southern border as terrorist organizations after the initiative cleared the state’s Senate on Friday. An ...

A ballot initiative is in the works to ban corporations with large existing or pending government contracts from making political contributions to candidates for office and sitting lawmakers. Taking ...

In Wisconsin, efforts to expand citizen-led ballot access have stalled. The state does not currently allow residents to ...

There are two ballot initiatives to strengthen direct democracy in Arkansas, both facing a more difficult road to the ballot ...

The law signed by DeSantis Friday also bars state funds from being used for political communications related to ballot initiatives. Originally Published: May 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM EDT Share this: ...