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In California, a ballot proposition is a referendum or an initiative measure that ... A measure placed on the ballot via petition can either be a vote to veto a law ...
Proposition 7 of 1911 (or Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 22) [1] was an amendment of the Constitution of California that introduced, for the first time, the initiative and the optional referendum. Prior to 1911 the only form of direct democracy in California was the compulsory referendum. [2]
In 2021, in Boulder, Colorado, the first official online petition system was used to get an initiative on the ballot, with no circulators involved at petitions.bouldercolorado.gov. The voters of the city of Boulder approved a charter amendment allowing online petitioning by a vote of 71% to 29% in 2018. [ 3 ]
In November 2024, Proposition 36, called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, was placed on the ballot. [42] "2024 California Proposition 36 would undo some of Proposition 47's reduced sentencing, such as theft of items worth $950 or less by a person with two or more past convictions would become a felony under Proposition ...
Proposition 15 (also known as split roll) [107] was an initiative constitutional amendment appearing on the November 2020 California statewide ballot [108] that would have raised taxes by amending Proposition 13 to require the reassessment of commercial and industrial properties at market value, including commercial and industrial property ...
Propositions can be placed on the ballot either through the exercise of the initiative power by the voters or by a vote of the state legislature. The state initiative power was added to the California constitution in 1911 as part of the ethics reform instituted by Governor Hiram Johnson in the early 1910s.
A satirical petition ostensibly aiming to crowdfund a trillion dollars to allow Denmark to buy California has received more than 200,000 signatures. A satirical petition ostensibly aiming to ...
On July 14, the petition organizer announced that the proposal received enough signatures to be placed on the ballot in two years; [32] however, it was determined that only about two thirds were valid and the petition fell short of qualifying for the November 2016 ballot. [33] New California: On January 16, 2018, the 501(c)(4) organization New ...