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- The Salt Lake Tribune
Opinion: I witnessed firsthand how the Utah Legislature works to undermine citizen initiatives
In 2021, an unbiased commission was established to create a new set of legislative maps based on standards of fairness — standards created by the Utah citizens. The Utah Legislature immediately ...
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- Deseret News via Yahoo
Special session called to put initiative constitutional amendment on Utah’s ballot
“This amendment provides a path for Utahns to weigh in and make their voices heard. To be clear, the proposed amendment restores the over 100-year-old effect of citizen initiatives. The initiative ...
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As of August 21, ten reproductive freedom measures have qualified for the November 5 ballot in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, and New York while five others are awaiting validation in Arkansas and Nebraska.
A ballot initiative is a citizen-initiated ballot measure. The ballot initiative process allows citizens to propose statutes or constitutional amendments, depending on the state, and collect signatures to place their proposals on the ballot for voters to decide.
Citizen-Initiated: Volunteers and/or paid canvassers can engage with their communities to collect the required number of individual petition signatures to qualify an initiative for a public vote. Each state has a different number of signatures required for an initiative to qualify for the ballot.
As of August 19, 2024, 10 statewide ballot measures were certified for the ballot in Colorado for the election on November 5, 2024. Three citizen initiatives are on the ballot. The Colorado State Legislature referred five constitutional amendments and two statutes to the 2024 ballot.
The ballot initiative process allows citizens to propose statutes or constitutional amendments, depending on the state, and collect signatures to place their proposals on the ballot for voters to decide. Some states have an indirect process in which legislatures have the option to approve the proposals outright.
Citizen initiatives and popular referenda are two forms of direct democracy. The citizen initiative process enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. Twenty-four states have citizen initiative processes.
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Feb 12, 2024 · WASHINGTON — A new 11-state survey (AR, ID, MS, MO, MT, NE, ND, OH, OK, SD, UT) released by the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (in partnership with EMC Research and North Star Opinion Research) shows strong support for citizen-led ballot initiatives across party lines.
