Ballot Initiatives

On Nov. 4 Oregon voters rejected a contentious state law that would have granted driver’s cards to Oregonians who can’t prove legal residency. The legislature passed the bill in 2013, but opponents of the law gathered enough signatures to send the measure to the polls as a ballot initiative. With two-thirds of the vote in dissension, the law was stopped dead in its tracks. 

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Legalization of statewide sales of alcohol in Arkansas failed to pass On November 4. Voters decided by ballot initiative whether or not to keep the current system of dry and mixed counties. Passage of the measure came up short, with 57 percent of voters saying ‘No’ to the change.  

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Arizona’s Prop 122 – allowing the state to refuse funding for federal regulations – passed on Tuesday by the slimmest of margins, garnering 51.4 percent of the vote. The broadly defined amendment now gives the state authority to essentially nullify federal regulations and mandates by declining to dedicate state resources for enforcement.

Voters in two states—Colorado and Oregon—rejected initiatives that would have required labeling for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on November 4, 2014.

Washington voters have chosen to increase background checks for firearm sales and transfers, voting 59.5% in favor of Initiative 594.

On November 4, North Dakota voters rejected Initiated Statutory Measure 6, which aimed to create a legal presumption that unless one parent is deemed unfit, both parents are granted equal parental rights and responsibilities, primary residential responsibility and decision-making responsibility of a child.

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