What is ballot initiative?
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It's when a group decides to make up their own law for everyone to vote on. Over-used, in my opinion. In Maine it's often used by evangelicals who want to deny civil rights to others.\n\nThere's a special process, starting with a petition drive.
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They know the vote isn't valid, since they've been disenfranchising the votes.  The ironic thing is that they actually think challenging the validity of the vote will HELP their count!
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I agree with you.  Many states have an initiative process where people are allowed to vote on issues -- my state, California has this and there are always a lot of issues on the ballot for the people to vote on.  There are many issues where the politicians in Washington somehow are out of step with the people as a whole.  A nation-wide initiative process would be a great solution to this.
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1. Initiative is the power/ability to begin or follow through with a plan or task.\n\n2. It means standing on your own without the prompting or direction of others
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Amendments to the Missouri State Constitution require that it be placed on a ballot before the people.  The rules involved are that an amendment can only address one issue.
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They are both decided by a vote of the people, They are two of the three forms of direct democracy along with Initiative
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If your state has a petition/referendum process like California, then you can bring just about any issue to the ballot of the next election. Just make sure that you have it checked for technicalities and legalities by some experts and lawyers before getting petitions.
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it is on the ballots i've filled in\n\nif none of the above wins the ballot the election is re-opened to new candidates
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Hi If you punch in  your city ,county, or state on SEARCH, you will find out all the issues that will appear on your ballot locally and state wide.The offices and candidates that are running for them.Good Luck     ROSCO
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Provisional ballots are given to those who claimed to have registered to vote, but for some reason do not appear on the poll books. For example, say a person registers to vote at the DMV (Dept. of Motor Vehicles) and the application never gets processed because it didn't make it from the DMV to the election office. The person may then show up on election day thinking that they are registered. The poll worker has no record of them being registered so the voter is given a provisional (paper) ballot and the election office will then have the DMV check their records to see if the person did actually register at their office. \nIf it is determined that the person did attempt to register then their ballot will be counted, if no record is found then the ballot is dismissed. A letter will be sent to the voter letting them know whether or not the ballot was counted.
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Sometimes local or State laws are put to "referendum".  That means the voters have a direct relationship as to whether the law gets passed or not.  Otherwise the only thing you can do is write to your representatives and tell them how you feel about a particular law or issue and they vote to their conscience, perhaps taking the citizen's opinions into account.
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informed voting is knowing who the candidates or issues are, and pros and cons of each, rather than just choosing based on party (democratic or republican) or something.
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Referendum: An election held on a single issue. Electors can either vote YES or NO (indicating that they agree or disagree with the motion)\n\nInitative: An idea that is put to a referendum by a group of concerned electors\n\nProposals: An idea that is drawn up by a group of concerned electors
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In some states it is called an initiative and in others it is called a referendum.  It depends what state you are asking about.
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In your sample ballot.
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OF COURSE IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE!!!!!\n\nWe get to choose our leaders!  That is the bedrock of our democracy!!!  If you choose not to vote, you give up your voice!  Don't let other people choose your leaders for you - VOTE!!!
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A ballot that has been cast but shows no selection in a given race or referendum.\n\nThe number of such ballots cast in an election.