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2010 Ballot Initiatives: The Strangest Choices for Voters This November
Each election day, buried under the votes for political office holders are ballot initiatives. Most of these are boring measures about the state budget or bond issues, and sometimes they are new amendments to a state's constitution. Occasionally,
The Florida Federal Budget Advisory Question asks Florida voters a simple question: Do you think that the U.S. Constitution should be amende
This year, multiple states are voting on inserting language protecting the rights of hunters into the state Constitutions. Are hunters' rights threatened in these states? That probably depends on whom you ask, but most of these are preventative me
In two states, voters get to decide whether convicted felons can run for office. Inspired in part by disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Michigan's
In Oklahoma, voters will consider State Question 751, which would require all the state's "official actions" to be written in En
Also in Oklahoma, we have State Question 755, otherwise known as the Sharia Law Amendment. This amendment would forbid state
Initiative 1098, in Washington State, is not particularly amusing, but the back story is. Washington has no personal income tax. The passage o
Few people outside the country's smallest state probably know that Rhode Island's official name is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Some state lawmakers want to change that, and in November, Rhode Islanders will vote on
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