Ballot Measures & Initiatives News

Voters in many states decide policy questions directly at the ballot box. Read Ballot Measures & Initiatives News for explanations of referendums, citizen initiatives, proposed constitutional amendments, and tax measures, including the arguments surrounding each proposal and its election outcome.
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    Who Requested 30,084 Mail-In Ballots From Fishy Addresses in Wisconsin?
    In what remains a nail-bitingly close presidential race, fewer than 25,000 votes could decide Wisconsin and its 10 Electoral College votes. Donald Trump won the Badger State in 2016 by 22,748 ballots. In 2020, he lost it by 20,982 votes. Given these low numbers and high stakes, this week’s findings by CommonSense Elections/StopBogusBallots.com are deeply…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Life Is on the Ballot in These States. Here’s What You Need to Know About Abortion-on-Demand Measures.
    There’s a lot at stake Nov. 5. In 10 states, the lives of unborn children—and women’s health and safety—are on the ballot. These measures, if passed, would enshrine abortion as a fundamental right in state constitutions. That means state legislatures essentially would be blocked from meaningfully protecting women and unborn children from abortion. That means…
    Melanie Israel
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    ‘Unacceptable’: County Fires Election Worker After Republican Spots Ballot Security Lapse in Real Time
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Hennepin County, Minnesota, fired an election worker who left several boxes of mail-in ballots unattended after a local GOP group exposed the alleged negligence, according to a statement from county officials released Friday. Minnesota Senate District 50 Republicans—the Republican Party’s official political unit for portions of Minnesota cities Edina and Bloomington—snapped a photo outside of…
    Owen Klinsky
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    School Choice on the Ballot in 3 States
    This November, education choice is on the ballot. Voters in three states—Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska—will decide Nov. 5 whether families should be able to choose the learning environments that work best for their children and have public funds follow their child. Two states are considering amendments to clarify that school choice is constitutional, while one…
    Jason Bedrick
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    Biden-Harris DOJ Attack on Youngkin, Virginia Voters Threatens Democracy and Ballot Sanctity
    A standard progressive claim is that the Left truly cares about democracy but the other side, not so much.  Yet the Biden-Harris White House is now suing my home state, Virginia, and our Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, for simply following and appropriately enforcing a 2006 law meant to protect our voting rights. That measure was…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    Who’s Bankrolling Ballot Initiative to Move Ohio Blue?
    The institutional Left is dumping millions into what has become the most expensive redistricting ballot initiative in history—to change how a red-leaning state elects members of Congress and the state Legislature.  The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a client of Arabella Advisors, is the largest donor to the Ohio ballot question, dubbed Issue 1. If voters approve…
    Fred Lucas
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    Complaint Alleges Michigan’s Top Election Official Misrepresented Facts to Keep RFK Jr. on Ballot
    Michigan’s top election official, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, is the subject of a bar complaint over her department’s actions to keep independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name on the ballot.   State Sen. Ruth Johnson, a Republican who immediately preceded Benson as secretary of state, filed the bar complaint alleging that…
    Fred Lucas
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    RNC Scores Win Over Benson in Michigan Ballot Case
    Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson took a recent loss in a mail-in ballots case.  Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are fiercely competing for Michigan’s 15 electoral votes, separated by no more than 1% or 2% in most polls, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.  The Republican National Committee and the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Pennsylvania High Court Blocks RNC Challenge on Mail Ballots
    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to take a case over a mail-in ballot lawsuit from the Republican National Committee, asserting it would be too close to the November election. As previously reported in The Daily Signal, the RNC sued the office of Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt for what it says are inconsistent standards…
    Fred Lucas
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    Bogus Ballots Targeted by This New Organization
    Donald J. Trump is on a roll, but his campaign could get run over. The GOP nominee is on message. He pledges to restore prosperity, retame inflation, reseal the border, refight crime, and resurrect global tranquility. America was better off when Trump’s "Peace Through Strength” policy bolstered European harmony and catalyzed the Abraham Accords. Under…
    Deroy Murdock
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    ‘Ballot Makers’: Dinesh D’Souza’s Film Exposes New Potential Election Fraud
    Paper ballots can be manufactured and purchased by those intent on election fraud, according to experts interviewed by commentator Dinesh D’Souza in his new documentary film “Vindicating Trump.” D’Souza, an author and filmmaker, said this form of election fraud surprised even former President Donald Trump, the subject of the film.   “A lot of times people,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Get Ready for Another Mail-In Ballot Fiasco
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Many states are sending out mail-in ballots now for the Nov. 5 presidential election. Yet at the same time that so many more voters are depending on the mail to cast their ballots, the two leading national organizations of election officials wrote the U.S. Postal Service to demand immediate action to avoid confusion and…
    Hans von Spakovsky | John Fund
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    GOP Sues Pennsylvania on Vote-by-Mail Ballot Rule
    Pennsylvania may be the most hotly contested state in the Nov. 5 presidential election. And four years ago, it was the most controversial state for its lack of mail-in ballot standards.  In the closing weeks of the 2024 election, Republicans have sued the office of Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt for what they say…
    Fred Lucas
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    Pro-Abortion Agitators Doxxed Pro-Lifers and Asked for the Names of Their Children Amid Ballot Initiative Battle
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—South Dakota pro-lifers say they experienced physical threats, verbal abuse, doxing, and stalking from a pro-abortion group collecting signatures for its radical referendum ballot measure. Dakotans for Health “used antifa-style actions, lies, and abuse to illegally get Amendment G on the ballot,” according to Chris David, a South Dakota resident and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘My Signature Has Been Forged’: DeSantis Probes Florida Pro-Abortion Ballot Measure Petitions Amid Fraud Allegations
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is asking law enforcement to “prioritize” the investigation into what may be “fraudulent” signatures on petitions to get a pro-abortion measure on the Nov. 5 ballot, according to a letter shared with The Daily Signal. The Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections’ office received complaints from voters about their signatures being…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Why Election Integrity Is a Dead Letter With Mail-In Ballots
    Wisconsin election officials have until Sept. 19 to distribute requested absentee ballots. That’s when the bad news begins. North Carolina authorities planned to ship ballots on Sept. 6. That's been postponed indefinitely, to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as an option. Absent that wrinkle, North Carolinians would have started to vote four days before Sept. 10’s Kamala Harris-versus-Donald Trump…
    Deroy Murdock
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    When These Battleground States Are Mailing Out Ballots and How That Could Affect Election Results 
    Just one battleground state was set to mail out absentee ballots before the presidential debate on Tuesday—but that timeline has been pushed back because of litigation surrounding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ballot status.  In North Carolina, ballots can be mailed up to 60 days before the election. It was the lone state where voting was…
    Fred Lucas
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    The Easy, Cheap, Quick Solution to the RFK Jr. Ballot Issue
    Early voting is starting in many states, both in-person and through the absentee balloting process, which makes resolving the issue of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remaining on state ballots an immediate problem. Wherever practical, election officials have a solemn obligation to their voters to remove a candidate from the ballot when that candidate has dropped…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    ‘Cardboard Boxes … Unsecured Sacks’: Wisconsin Struggles to Set Standard for Ballot Drop Boxes
    Voters will use ballot drop boxes again this fall in Wisconsin, among a few battleground states that could decide the Nov. 5 presidential election, prompting concern among election integrity advocates.  The dissenting opinion in the state Supreme Court ruling reinstating the drop boxes argued that insufficient standards could allow “unattended cardboard box” or an “unsecured…
    Fred Lucas
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    2 New Ballot Initiatives Would Expand ‘Health’ Definitions to Legalize Abortion on Demand
    Abortion initiatives in Missouri and Arizona will effectively ask voters to allow no restrictions on ending the lives of unborn children. Missouri and Arizona on Tuesday joined the list of states with abortion initiatives on the Nov. 5 ballot. Now, voters will decide pro-abortion measures in a total of eight states, the most on record…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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