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There Are Many Initiatives on the Ballot in November

The presidential race and half a dozen Senate races are sucking up so much of the oxygen that very few people are talking about the many downballot races and especially not ballot initiatives, although there are quite a few of them. Here is a quick rundown of some of the more interesting ones:

Abortion

State	Name	Description
Arizona	Proposition 139	Would establish a constitutional right to abortion up until fetal viability
Colorado	Amendment 79	Would establish a constitutional right to abortion up until fetal viability
Florida	Amendment 4	Would extend the current 6-week ban to the point of fetal viability
Maryland	Question 1	Would establish a constitutional right to reproductive freedom
Missouri	Amendment 3	Would establish a constitutional right to abortion up until fetal viability
Montana	Amendment 128	Would establish a constitutional right to abortion up until fetal viability
Nebraska	Amendment 434	Would ban abortions in the second and third trimester
Nebraska	Amendment 439	Would establish a constitutional right to abortion up until fetal viability
Nevada	Question 6	Would establish a constitutional right to abortion up until fetal viability
New York	Proposition 1	Would ban discrimination based on various grounds including reproductive healthcare
South Dakota	Amendment G	Would allow abortions in the first trimester but allow laws regulating them later

Marijuana

State	Name	Description
Arkansas	Issue 3	Legalizes medical marijuana
Florida	Amendment 3	Legalizes recreational marijuana
Massachusetts	Question 4	Legalizes Psychedelic substances
Nebraska	Amendments. 437 & 438	Legalizes medical marijuana
North Dakota	Measure 5	Legalizes recreational marijuana
South Dakota	Measure 29	Legalizes recreational marijuana

Labor issues

State	Name	Description
Alaska	Measure 1	Sets the minimum wage at $15/hr and requires 7 paid sick days
Arizona	Proposition 138	Lowers the tipped minimum wage from $14.35/hr to $10.77/hr
California	Proposition 32	Increases the minimum wage to $18/hr
Massachusetts	Question 3	Allows rideshare drivers to unionize
Massachusetts	Question 5	Phases out the sub-minimum wage and expands the tip pool to backroom workers
Missouri	Proposition A	Increase the minimum wage to $15/hr and mandates paid sick pay
Nebraska	Amendment 436	Requires business to offer paid sick leave to workers
South Dakota	Amendment F	Paves the way for the state to require work to get Medicaid

Elections

State	Name	Description
Alaska	Measure 2	Would repeal the current ranked-choice voting system
Arizona	Proposition 133	Would require partisan primaries and outlaw ranked-choice voting statewide
Arizona	Proposition 140	Would require open primaries with a top-three ranked-choice general election
Arizona	Proposition 137	Would end elections for judges and invalidate this year's judicial elections
Arizona	Proposition 134	Would make it harder for citizen initiatives to get on the ballot
Colorado	Proposition 131	Copies the Alaska system (open primary plus top-four ranked choice general election)
Connecticut	Amendment 1	Allows any eligible voter to vote by absentee ballot
Florida	Amendment 1	Makes school board elections partisan
Florida	Amendment 6	Ends public funding for gubernatorial candidates and three other statewide offices
Idaho	Proposition 1	Copies the Alaska system (open primary plus top-four ranked-choice general election)
Iowa	Amendment 1	Allows 17-year olds to vote in primaries if they will be 18 by the general election
Maine	Question 1	Would restrict campaign contributions to PACs to $5,000
Montana	Initiatives 126 & 127	Would require an open primary and getting 50% in general election
Nevada	Question 3	Repeat of the 2022 vote to use open primaries and ranked choice voting
Nevada	Question 7	Would require photo ID to vote
Ohio	Issue 1	Creates a redistricting commission to draw district lines
Oregon	Measure 117	Would require ranked choice voting for president, Congress, governor, AG, and SoS
North Dakota	Measure 2	Would require initiatives to be approved by voters twice in the same year
South Dakota	Amendment H	Would create open primary and top-two general election

Gay rights

State	Name	Description
California	Proposition 3	Would remove language banning same-sex marriages & repeal Proposition 8 from 2008
Colorado	Amendment J	Would remove language banning same-sex marriage from state Constitution
Hawaii	Question 1	Would remove language banning same-sex marriage from state Constitution

Changes to terminology

State	Name	Description
Nevada	Question 2	Replaces "insane" and certain other terms in the state Constitution with euphemisms
North Dakota	Measure 1	Replaces "insane" and certain other terms in the state Constitution with euphemisms
South Dakota	Amendment E	Removes generic male pronouns from the state Constitution

As you can see, some of the initiatives have spawned counterinitiatives. In addition, there are many municipal initiatives, bond approval measures, and measures (often local) on housing, climate, transportation, guns, education, and taxation. We didn't list the many states that have initiatives for banning noncitizens from voting because they mean nothing. Federal law already prohibits them from voting. (V)

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