Republican elected officials are trying to roll back passed measures and place restrictions on citizen-led initiatives.

With ballot initiatives, we can. At the Center for Work and Democracy, my colleagues and I have spent the past four years cataloguing and studying the results of citizen-initiated ballot measures ...

But that 2026 ballot measure might not be the end of the conversation about how Missouri should regulate the procedure, according to Missouri House Speaker Jonathan Patterson, a Lee's Summit ...

A ballot initiative proposal that would require developers to provide one-third of their units at affordable prices if they want to use the City of Bozeman’s cash-in-lieu of water-rights option ...

ARKANSAS, USA — After several rejections, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has approved the League of Women Voters' (LWV) ballot title and popular name for an amendment that aims to reform ...

J. Davis touted results of recent crime-fighting operations in Memphis on Wednesday. “The era of unchecked violence in our city is over,” Young said in a news conference focused on arrests ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A fight over how easy it should be to change the state's constitution is escalating with this year's second direct democracy ballot initiative. 'Protect AR Rights' is now ...

Both measures — Initiatives 437 and 438 — passed by wide majorities at the ballot box, but the effort to flesh out the details and install guardrails in state law was thwarted by a ...

Florida’s strict new law on ballot initiatives faces its first test ... Voters in Florida over the last two decades have passed a number of initiatives that were opposed by GOP legislators, including ...

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 ...

A Protect AR Rights spokesperson said the group was submitting a ballot initiative to overturn legislation passed in the most recent session to increase restrictions on the referendum process. The ...