Daily Kos Elections Guide to 2022 Ballot Measures on Voting and Elections

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2	Jurisdiction	Title	Subject	Description	Type	Path to Ballot	Daily Kos Coverage

3	Alabama	Alabama Recompiled Constitution Ratification Question	Constitution	Ratifies an updated and recompiled state constitution that would arrange it in proper articles, parts, and sections; remove racist language; delete duplicative and repealed provisions; consolidate provisions regarding economic development; and arrange all local amendments by county of application. Includes the repeal of an exception allowing slavery for the punishment of a crime.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
4	Alabama	Amendment 4	Elections	Requires changes to laws setting election and voting procedures for a general election to be implemented at least six months from the general election.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
5	Alaska	Ballot Measure 1	Constitution	Asks voters whether to hold a state constitutional convention.	Convention	Automatic	Link
6	Arizona	Proposition 128	Direct democracy	Circumvents current restrictions on legislators altering laws approved by ballot initiative by allowing legislators to amend or repeal entirely any voter-approved law even if only part of it is ruled unconstitutional in state or federal court.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
7	Arizona	Proposition 129	Direct democracy	Limits ballot initiatives to addressing a single subject.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
8	Arizona	Proposition 131	Elections	Creates an office of lieutenant governor elected on a joint ticket, with nominees for governor selecting their running mates after the primary.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
9	Arizona	Proposition 132	Direct democracy, taxes	Requires a 60% voter supermajority for approval of ballot initiatives and legislatively approved amendments that would approve new taxes.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
10	Arizona	Proposition 211	Campaign finance	Requires disclosure of "dark money" donors who give $5,000 or more to independent expenditure efforts above a certain spending threshold.	Statute	Initiated by voters
11	Arizona	Proposition 309	Voting rights	Requires date of birth and voter identification number for mail-in ballots and eliminates two-document alternative to photo ID for in-person voting.	Statute	Referred by lawmakers
12	Arkansas	Issue 1	Legislative branch	Allows the legislature to call itself into special session with the support of House and Senate leaders or 2/3 of members.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
13	Arkansas	Issue 2	Direct democracy	Requires a 60% voter supermajority for approval of ballot initiatives.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
14	Arkansas	Issue 3	Civil rights	Amends the state constitution to provide that "government shall not burden a person's freedom of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability."	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
15	Arkansas	Issue 4	Drugs	Legalizes recreational marijuana usage and regulates commercial sales.	Amendment	Initiated by voters	Link
16	California	Proposition 1	Abortion	Enshrines a state constitutional right to reproductive freedom, including the right to an abortion.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
17	California	Proposition 26	Gambling	Legalizes sports betting at Native American gaming casinos and licensed racetracks in California.	Amendment and statute	Initiated by voters	Link
18	California	Proposition 27	Gambling, housing, healthcare	Legalizes online sports betting and dedicates revenue to address homelessness, mental health, and Native American tribal economic development.	Amendment and statute	Initiated by voters	Link
19	California	Proposition 30	Taxes, climate	Increases the tax on personal income above $2 million by 1.75% and dedicates revenue to zero-emission vehicle projects and wildfire prevention programs.	Statute	Initiated by voters	Link
20	California	Proposition 31	Drugs	A "no" vote would repeal a law passed by the legislature in 2020 that bans the sale of flavored tobacco products.	Veto referendum	Initiated by voters
21	Colorado	Proposition 121	Taxes	Reduces the state income tax rate from 4.55% to 4.40% for tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2022.	Statute	Initiated by voters
22	Colorado	Proposition 122	Drugs	Decriminalizes personal use of certain plant-based and fungi-based hallucinogenic drugs and regulates their sale for therapeutic purposes.	Statute	Initiated by voters
23	Colorado	Proposition 123	Housing	Dedicates 0.1% of income tax revenue to affordable housing programs.	Statute	Initiated by voters
24	Colorado	Proposition 126	Drugs	Allows bars, restaurants, and certain licensed retailers to offer alcohol takeout and delivery.	Statute	Initiated by voters
25	Colorado	Proposition GG	Direct democracy, taxes	Requires a table showing changes in income tax owed for average taxpayers in certain brackets to be included in the ballot title and fiscal summary for any citizen initiative that would increase or decrease the individual income tax rate.	Statute	Referred by lawmakers
26	Connecticut	Question 1	Voting rights	Allows the legislature to provide for early voting.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
27	Florida	Amendment 2	Constitution	Abolishes the Florida Constitution Revision Commission, which is appointed by the governor, legislative leaders, and chief justice and meets every two decades to propose constitutional amendments and put them on the ballot for voter approval.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
28	Idaho	Constitutional Amendment SJR 102	Legislative branch	Allows the legislature to call itself into special session with the support of 3/5 of members.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
29	Illinois	Amendment 1	Labor	Creates a state constitutional right to collective bargaining.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
30	Iowa	Amendment 1	Guns	Adds a right to own and bear firearms to the Iowa Constitution and requires courts to apply strict scrutiny to any law alleged to violate the right.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
31	Kansas	Constitutional Amendment 2	Elections	Requires all county sheriffs to be elected offices, which would effectively prevent Johnson County from making the sheriff an appointed office, and allows sheriffs to be removed from office only by voter recall or by the state attorney general, removing the power of local district attorneys to remove sheriffs for abuse of power.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
32	Kentucky	Amendment 1	Legislative branch	Alters regular legislative session dates, allows the House speaker and Senate president to call legislature into special session, and allows a 3/5 legislative supermajority to change legislative session end dates.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
33	Kentucky	Amendment 2	Abortion	Amends the state constitution to state that it does not provide a right to an abortion or public funding for abortion.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
34	Louisiana	Amendment 1	Voting rights	Amends the state constitution to say, "No person who is not a citizen of the United States shall be allowed to register and vote in this state."	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
35	Louisiana	Amendment 7	Criminal justice	Removes language in the state constitution that allows slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
36	Maryland	Question 2	Elections	Requires that state legislators reside in their district for six months prior to an election.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
37	Maryland	Question 4	Drugs	Legalizes recreational marijuana usage and directs lawmakers to regulate commercial sales.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
38	Massachusetts	Question 1	Education, transportation, taxes	Creates a 4% tax on incomes that exceed $1 million for education and transportation purposes.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
39	Massachusetts	Question 4	Immigration	A "no" vote would repeal a law passed by the legislature in 2022 that lets undocumented immigrants obtain a driver's license.	Veto referendum	Initiated by voters
40	Michigan	Proposal 1	Term limits	Loosens the current limits of two 4-year Senate terms and three 2-year House terms to instead be 12 years in the legislature regardless of chamber.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
41	Michigan	Proposal 2	Voting rights	Protects election integrity and expands voting rights, including requirements for: 9 days of early voting; absentee ballot drop boxes; absentee ballot prepaid postage; a right to request an absentee ballot; reducing voter ID burdens; counting military and overseas ballots that are postmarked by Election Day; and detering partisan officials from subverting election certification.	Amendment	Initiated by voters	Link
42	Michigan	Proposal 3	Abortion	Enshrines a state constitutional right to reproductive freedom, including the right to an abortion.	Amendment	Initiated by voters	Link
43	Missouri	Amendment 3	Drugs	Legalizes recreational marijuana usage and regulates commercial sales.	Amendment	Initiated by voters
44	Missouri	Amendment 4	Criminal justice	Allows the legislature to increase a local government's minimum funding for a police force established by a state board of police commissioners, which in practice would apply only to Kansas City.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
45	Missouri	Constitutional Convention Question	Constitution	Asks voters whether to hold a state constitutional convention.	Convention	Automatic
46	Montana	C-48	Criminal justice	Requires a search warrant to access a person's electronic data.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
47	Montana	LR-131	Abortion	Requires healthcare workers to provide care to "infants born alive" and makes it a felony to fail to do so. Defines a "born-alive infant" as "an infant who breathes, has a beating heart, or has definite movement of voluntary muscles, after the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother."	Statute	Referred by lawmakers	Link
48	Nebraska	Initiative 432	Voting rights	Requires a photo ID to vote.	Amendment	Initiated by voters
49	Nebraska	Initiative 433	Labor	Increases the minimum wage from $9 to $15 by 2026 then indexes it to inflation thereafter.	Statute	Initiated by voters
50	Nevada	Question 1	Civil rights	Amends the state constitution to say that, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this State or any of its political subdivisions on account of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry or national origin."	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
51	Nevada	Question 2	Labor	Increases the minimum wage to $12 by 2024 but removes existing inflation adjustments and lets the legislature pass a minimum wage law higher than the constitutionally mandated minimum.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
52	Nevada	Question 3	Electoral system reform	Abolishes the current primary system by adopting an all-party primary from which the top-five finishers regardless of party advance to an instant-runoff general election.	Amendment	Initiated by voters
53	New Hampshire	Constitutional Convention Question	Constitution	Asks voters whether to hold a state constitutional convention.	Convention	Automatic
54	North Dakota	Constitutional Measure 1	Term limits	Creates separate term limits of two 4-year terms for governor, Senate, and House.	Amendment	Initiated by voters	Link
55	North Dakota	Statutory Measure 1	Drugs	Legalizes recreational marijuana usage and regulates commercial sales.	Statute	Initiated by voters
56	Ohio	Issue 1	Criminal justice	Requires Ohio judges to "use factors such as public safety, including the seriousness of the offense, and a person's criminal record" when setting amounts and conditions of bail.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
57	Ohio	Issue 2	Voting rights	Amends the state constitution to remove language guaranteeing that "every citizen" who meets specific qualifications has the right to vote and replaces it with the limitation that "only a citizen" who meets those qualifications has voting rights	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
58	Oregon	Measure 111	Healthcare	Amends the state constitution to require the state to "ensure that every resident" has access to "affordable health care as a fundamental right."	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
59	Oregon	Measure 112	Criminal justice	Repeals language allowing slavery or involuntary servitude as criminal punishments and authorizes an Oregon court or a probation or parole agency to order alternatives to incarceration for a convicted individual.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
60	Oregon	Measure 113	Legislative elections	Amends the state constitution to deter legislative quorum-busting by disqualifying sitting legislators with at least 10 unexcused absences in a legislative session from seeking re-election in the next election and only restoring their ability to run after they have sat out the next 2-year term.	Amendment	Initiated by voters	Link
61	Oregon	Measure 114	Guns	Adds stricter safety requirements for firearm purchases by requiring purchasers obtain a permit, pass a federal background check, complete a safety class with hands-on training, and submit fingerprints. Additionally bans gun magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.	Statute	Initiated by voters
62	South Dakota	Constitutional Amendment D	Healthcare	Amends the state constitution to expand Medicaid.	Amendment	Initiated by voters
63	South Dakota	Initiated Measure 27	Drugs	Legalizes recreational marijuana usage and regulates commercial sales.	Statute	Initiated by voters
64	Tennessee	Constitutional Amendment 1	Labor	Amends the state constitution to add a "right-to-work" provision banning workplaces from requiring union membership as a precondition of employment, which is currently statutory law.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
65	Tennessee	Constitutional Amendment 3	Criminal justice	Amends the state constitution to repeal language allowing slavery or involuntary servitude as criminal punishments.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
66	Vermont	Proposal 2	Criminal justice	Prohibits slavery and indentured servitude in the state constitution.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
67	Vermont	Proposal 5	Abortion	Enshrines a state constitutional right to reproductive freedom, including the right to an abortion.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
68	Washington, D.C.	Initiative 82	Labor	Increases the $5.35 minimum wage for tipped employees to match the minimum wage for non-tipped employees by 2027 (currently $16.10).	Statute	Initiated by voters
69	West Virginia	Amendment 1	Judicial branch	States that no courts have any authority over impeachment proceedings and that an impeachment judgment by the state Senate cannot be reviewed by a state court.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
70	Long Beach Unified School District, CA	Measure LBU	Election timing	Moves local school board elections to coincide with state elections in even-numbered years.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
71	Long Beach, CA	Measure E	Criminal justice	Establishes a police oversight commission in the city to modify police practices and policies.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
72	Long Beach, CA	Measure LBC	Election timing	Moves local elections to coincide with state elections in even-numbered years.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
73	Los Angeles County, CA	Measure A	Criminal justice	Allows the county Board of Supervisors by a 4/5 vote to remove the elected sheriff from office for cause.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
74	Los Angeles, CA	Proposition LH	Housing	Authorizes the city to develop up to an additional 5,000 low-income rental housing units per city council district for a total of 75,000 additional units citywide.	Statute	Referred by lawmakers
75	Los Angeles, CA	Proposition ULA	Housing, taxes	Enacts a "mansion tax" on the sale or transfer of high-valued real estate properties in order to fund low-income hosing availability and prevent homelessness, with a 4% tax on properties over $5 million and a 5.5% tax on properties over $10 million.	Statute	Initiated by voters
76	Modesto, CA	Measure G	Election timing	Moves mayoral election dates to coincide with the statewide primary and general election.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
77	Oakland, CA	Measure S	Voting rights	Grants noncitizen legal residents who are the parent or guardian of child the right to vote for local school board director if they are otherwise eligible under state and local law.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
78	Oakland, CA	Measure V	Campaign finance	Enacts government ethics reforms and establishes public campaign finance system in local elections by giving voters vouchers to donate to candidates.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
79	San Francisco, CA	Proposition H	Election timing and direct democracy	Moves elections for citywide offices from odd-numbered to presidential cycle years; switches voter signature requirements for ballot initiatives from 5% of votes cast for mayor to 2% of registered voters.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
80	San Francisco, CA	Proposition M	Housing, taxes	Allows the city to tax owners of certain vacant residential units to fund rent subsidies and affordable housing.	Statute	Initiated by voters
81	Boulder, CO	Question 2E	Election timing	Moves local elections from odd-numbered years to coincide with even-numbered year state elections beginning in 2026.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
82	Denver, CO	Question 2L	Direct democracy	Requires ballot initiatives to contain only one subject.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
83	Denver, CO	Ordinance 305	Housing, taxes	Creates a $75 tax per property on landlords to fund a program for legal assistance for tenants in eviction proceedings.	Statute	Initiated by voters
84	St. Petersburg, FL	Charter Amendment 1	Election timing	Moves local elections from odd-numbered years to coincide with the presidential cycle starting in 2024.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
85	Baltimore, MD	Question K	Term limits	Creates a limit of two 4-year terms within a 12-year period for city elected officials, including the mayor and city council, starting with the 2024 elections.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
86	Portland, ME	Question 4	Electoral system reform	Adopts proportional representation via ranked-choice voting in multi-seat districts.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
87	Portland, ME	Question D	Labor	Eliminates the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers and raises the minimum wage for all workers to $18 by 2025, including extending it to "gig economy" workers.	Statute	Initiated by voters	Link
88	Henderson, NV	Question 1	Electoral system reform	Replaces citywide elections for city council with elections by district.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
89	New York City, NY	Question 2	Civil rights	Creates an office and commission for racial equity and requires the city government and agencies to produce racial equity plans every two years.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
90	Multnomah County, OR	Measure 26-231	Voting rights	Directs the county to extend voting rights in county elections to noncitizens.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
91	Multnomah County, OR	Measure 26-232	Electoral system reform	Adopts instant-runoff voting for county offices.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
92	Portland, OR	Measure 26-228	Electoral system and city council structure reform	Replaces the commission system of city government with an appointed city manager, expands the city council from 5 to 12 members, and adopts proportional representation for council elections using ranked-choice voting in multi-seat districts.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers	Link
93	Clark County, WA	Amendment 10	Electoral system reform	Adopts instant-runoff voting for county offices starting in 2026.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
94	King County, WA	Charter Amendment 1	Election timing	Moves county elections from odd-numbered to even-numbered years starting in 2026.	Amendment	Referred by lawmakers
95	Seattle, WA	Proposition 1A and 1B	Electoral system reform	Replaces the top-two primary system for city offices with either approval voting or instant-runoff voting, with part one asking if voters want to change the electoral system and part two asking between approval and instant-runoff.	Amendment	Partly initiated by voters and partly referred by lawmakers	Link