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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.
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Oct 25, 2023 · The term "citizen ballot measure" describes citizen-initiated processes to amend state constitutions or city charters, to uphold or repeal a law passed by the state legislature (veto referendum), to propose state laws, to approve bond issues or tax proposals, or to start a recall election.
A citizen-initiated ballot measure can be an initiated state statute, initiated constitutional amendment, or a veto referendum. A veto referendum is a citizen-initiated ballot measure that asks voters whether to uphold or repeal an enacted law.
In direct initiative, the proposition is put directly to a plebiscite or referendum, also called a popular initiated referendum or citizen-initiated referendum.
What is a ballot measure? What is “direct democracy”? How do ballot measures wind up on my ballot? What happens after ballot measures are passed? Which states allow citizen-initiated ballot measures? Have ballot measures actually succeeded in changing policies?
In the U.S., the initiative and referendum refers to state processes that allow citizens to collect signatures to place legislation on the ballot for voters to decide. These types of ballot measures are known as citizen-initiated ballot measures.
