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Voters in Arizona Proposition , Missouri Proposition C , and Oklahoma Question approved ballot measures declaring that individuals and business cannot be required to participate in a government health care system, and that individuals and businesses have a right to privately contract for medical services.

Bucking the trend, Colorado Amendment 63 voters rejected a similar measure. Secret votes in union elections. Voters approved several measures that were targeted at labor unions. Voters in Arizona Proposition , South Carolina Amendment 2 and Utah Amendment A approved propositions requiring secret ballots for union elections. It represented another refutation of President Obama, who made approval of a federal card check law a prominent part of his campaign in , although the rejections took place in three states that Obama lost in Affirmative action.

The state joins California, Michigan, Nebraska and Washington, which previously approved such measures. Propositions relating to animals have been increasingly common, with 13 animal-related initiatives appearing over the past decade. Many of these measures have been promoted by animal rights groups in order to improve the living conditions of farm animals and limit hunting practices.

Partly in response to the growing success of animal rights activists, hunting and fishing advocates have been seeking to amend their state constitutions to guarantee residents the right to hunt and fish. Voters in Arkansas Amendment 1 , South Carolina Amendment 1 , and Tennessee Amendment 1 approved such constitutional amendments in , but voters rejected a similar measure in Arizona Proposition Election reform.

Dissatisfaction with the performance of American democracy continued to fuel election reform proposals. California Proposition 27 declined to abolish its new citizen commission for redistricting the state legislature. Voters were not attracted to the idea of publicly funding campaigns, repealing a public funding law in Florida Amendment 1 and rejecting a California initiative Proposition 15 that would have established a public funding system for secretary of state.

Oklahoma Question approved term limits for state officers and New Mexico Amendment 2 rejected a proposal to weaken term limits for county officials.

Oklahoma voters approved a law requiring proof of identity to vote Question Illinois voters approved a constitutional amendment allowing recall of the governor in response to the Rod Blagojevich scandal. And in June, California voters approved a nonpartisan top-two primary system Proposition Big spending by big businesses.

The outcomes of the Proposition 16 and 17 campaigns support the conventional view that spending against a measure is more potent than spending in favor of a measure, and the uneven spending ratios in the campaigns undercut the claim that special interests can use their deep pockets to buy favorable legislation by outspending opponents.

Sponsors pulled a huge water bond measure in California from the ballot before the election out of concern it would fail. Overall, legislatures seem to have become hesitant about borrowing, perhaps due to huge federal and state deficits that have begun worrying citizens across the country.

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Continue Our online privacy policy. American Samoa. District of Columbia. New Hampshire. NO ON 20—it wastes taxpayer dollars and it turns back the clock on redistricting law. Proposition 20 is a disaster. But if Proposition 20 passes, the taxpayers will start paying the bills instead of Munger Junior. Compare Prop. Second, Prop. Proposition 20 turns back the clock on redistricting law. Inexplicably, Proposition 20 mandates that all districts including Assembly, Senate, and Congress must be segregated by income level.

This pernicious Prop. Jim Crow districts are a thing of the past. No on Districting by race, by class, by lifestyle or by wealth is unacceptable. Munger Junior may not want to live in the same district as his chauffeur, but Californians understand these code words. A total of , valid signatures were required to qualify the initiative for the ballot. Supporters submitted 1,, signatures in mid-March Election officials announced that the measure qualified for the ballot on May 5, The petition drive management company hired to collect the signatures was National Petition Management.

What's on my ballot? Elections in How to vote How to run for office Ballot measures. Who represents me? President U. Click here to follow election results! Altogether, six propositions were approved and eight were defeated. Of the ballot measures on statewide ballots nationally in , eight of the 10 ballot propositions that attracted the most spending were from California. The California State Legislature may refer constitutional amendments to the ballot with a two-thirds The legislature can refer statutes and bond issues with a simple majority vote, but the governor's signature is also required.

In California, changes to voter-approved ballot initiatives need to be referred to voters for approval or rejection unless the changes further the initiative's purpose. The number of valid signatures for citizen-initiated measures in California are based on the votes cast for governor in the last gubernatorial election, which are held every four years. The requirements for each type in were as follows:. Of the 72 registered campaign committees, nine committees registered as having a position on two propositions.

One committee registered as having a position on 3 propositions, and two committees registered as having a position on four propositions. The top five donors to the propositions that were on the November 2, ballot were: [3].

Californians voted on local ballot measures, including local recall measures, on 15 dates throughout These ballot measures were proposed in the California State Legislature , which ultimately did not vote any of them onto the November ballot.

See Amending the California Constitution for an outline of how the California legislature can begin the process of amending the state's constitution through the legislative referral process.

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