Ballot measures to watch: details on total number and those to watch in each state.
Ballot measures can take various forms, from initiatives to constitutional amendments, bond issues or referendums.
It is up to the people, through ballot measures and their elected representatives, to decide social questions.
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Voters could see a record number of ballot measures on election day 1998.
Depending on the number of ballot measures, it can be a tome and the perfect way to spoil a weekend.
Most other states call for their state legislatures to put ballot measures before a public vote before they are enacted.
In Maryland and Washington, ballot measures are seeking to overturn gay marriage bills that were signed into law earlier this year.
That feat was particularly astonishing because, last autumn, each side had spent millions backing ballot measures designed to undermine the other lot.
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Two ballot measures have already been proposed to undo the restrictions.
From California to the Gulf Stream waters, voters will weigh in on whether to raise (or lower) state taxes through ballot measures on Election Day.
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Also approved directly by voters, in two separate ballot measures, this commission consists of 14 members, chosen in a complex but rigorous process, partly by lottery.
The union, which habitually spends lots of money on campaigns for judicial and legislative elections, as well as on ballot measures, will of course fight the proposal.
At issue was whether nonunion employees may be constitutionally required to pay special fees to a union to help cover things like political spending on ballot measures.
One eloquent English teacher in Los Angeles recently called a radio show complaining that, after extensive study, she could not understand the ballot measures on grounds of syntax.
Ballot measures to cut taxes also had successes and failures.
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The company said Friday that it will post online its contributions to political candidates and political parties, political spending to trade associations and nonprofit social welfare organizations, and contributions to influence ballot measures.
In 38 states, voters will decide 174 ballot questions, and of those 34 are tax-related, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures which has a comprehensive list of state ballot measures here.
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At stake in the 1998 midterm election are all 435 House seats, 34 Senate seats, 36 governor's mansions, state legislative elections in every state but four and statewide ballot measures in nearly all of the states.
Supporters of Proposition 8 say the court should respect the verdict of California voters who approved the ban in 2008 and let the fast-changing politics of gay marriage evolve on their own, through ballot measures and legislative action, not judicial decrees.
With polls showing strong public opposition to same-sex marriage, groups fighting Tuesday's ballot measures conceded from the beginning that theirs was an uphill fight -- but they embraced the silver lining that the ballot measures were at least an opportunity to debate the issue.
While fellow Labour MP, Tom Pendry, who came second in the ballot, is backing measures to help carers and disabled children.
Finally, several states have what might simply be called anti-tax measures on the ballot.
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And there are similar measures on the November ballot in at least three other states.
Two measures on the 2006 ballot weighed in at more than 17, 000 words (half as long again as this special report).
Twenty-four states allow direct initiatives (citizens putting measures directly on the ballot), indirect initiatives (first going through a state's legislature before being put onto the ballot), or both.
California voters said no to all eight measures on a special election ballot, including four that Governor Schwarzenegger said were essential to reforming state politics.
In Mississippi, Missouri and Wyoming, on the other hand, voters backed measures making it harder to put initiatives on the ballot.
Should all of the measures actually qualify for the November 3, 1998 ballot, they would include the following issues: campaign finance reform, civil rights, abortion rights, homosexual rights, gambling, guns, drugs, term limits, crime, education and tax reform.
Indeed, polling in many states suggests that the measures will pass easily so long as they can get on the ballot.
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