Exposing the deceptive tactics behind the country’s most suspect ballot initiatives.
Gov. Chris Gregoire on Friday signed a measure meant to make ballots less confusing to voters. Under the measure that was unanimously passed by both the House and Senate, ballots will have to be clearly marked to show where ballot instructions end and the spot to vote begins
Nebraska lawmakers deep-sixed a proposal Thursday that would have lowered the number of petition signatures to put measures on the ballot.
Bill Sizemore says he's broke. The conservative political activist says he barely has $100 in the bank, is working for $10 an hour planting trees and clearing brush, and makes barely enough to buy groceries.
Many of us believe allowing citizens to directly propose new laws and vote on them strengthens our democracy, but day to day, we do not think about technical details of how initiatives make it to the ballot
The phenomenon of corporations buying their way onto the California election ballot is fast reaching epidemic proportions.