Past Year Referendums: 2022

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See also Past Referendums for 20202023, and 2024. There were none worth reporting for 2021.

There were no referendums this year on the death penalty nor euthanasia, nor any that could be construed as relating to war.

Abortion Referendums

Peace Pro-life Referendums Pregnant Woman

 

 

California

Vermont ReferendumsProposition 1:

Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment

Result: 76% voted yes

 

Kansas

Kentucky ReferendumsValue Them Both Amendment

Result: 59% voted no

 

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Kentucky 

Kentucky ReferendumsAmendment 2:

No Right to Abortion in Constitution Amendment

Result: 53% voted no

 

Michigan

Vermont ReferendumsProposal 3:

Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative

Result: 56% voted yes

 

Montana

Kentucky ReferendumsMontana LR-131:

Medical Care Requirements for Born-Alive Infants Measure

Result: 54% voted no

For those who wonder how Montana voters could be so heartless as to vote down a measure to give medical care to infants born alive, including those surviving an abortion attempt, Wesley J Smith explains: The first paragraph would have established a newborn as a person worth protecting, but the second paragraph added a requirement that all life-saving medical care must happen. That means a baby who’s going to die soon even with that care must be subjected to it, rather than being comforted in mom’s arms. That scenario is indeed heartless, and that second paragraph may have caused the loss.

This underscores the importance of careful vetting of the wording before putting a measure on the ballot, including seeing how opponents will attack it.

Vermont

Vermont ReferendumsProposal 5:

Right to Personal Reproductive Autonomy Amendment

Result: 77% voted yes

Poverty Referendums

Colorado

Alabama ReferendumsReduce Income Tax Deduction Amounts to Fund School Meals Program Measure

Result: 57% voted yes

Note: we didn’t have this on our original list of referendums we were tracking because we didn’t know about it through our normal online search methods.

This underscores the importance of people bringing good referendums to our attention. Ballotpedia is our main source, and since they don’t have a topic for alleviating poverty, it slipped by us. Ballotpedia also covers only state-wide referendums, not local ones, and we’d like to cover local ones as well.

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Poverty Referendums

 

 

Nebraska

Alabama ReferendumsMinimum Wage Increase Initiative

Result: 56% voted yes

Nevada

Alabama ReferendumsMinimum Wage Increase Amendment

Result: 54% voted yes

South Dakota

Alabama ReferendumsConstitutional Amendment D: Medicaid Expansion Initiative

Result: 56% voted yes

Racism Referendums

Alabama

Alabama Recompiled Constitution Ratification Question

While many aspects of this lengthy and complex question don’t interest us, this includes the removal of several racist provisions of Alabama’s previous constitution and therefore helps clean up the lethal legacy of racism. This includes removing an exception on abolishing slavery for those convicted of a crime, an exception that’s still in the U.S. Constitution’s 13th amendment.

Also, this state constitution retains a previous no-right-to-abortion provision.

Alabama Referendums

The “Yes” vote was 76%.

Louisiana

Remove Involuntary Servitude as a Punishment for a Crime Constitution Amendment

This one is more complicated. Short version: wording was unclear, so another attempt was to be made with better wording. This hasn’t happened yet.

Oregon

Alabama ReferendumsRemove Slavery as a Punishment for a Crime Constitution Amendment

Result: 55% voted yes

 

Tennessee

Alabama ReferendumsRemove Slavery as a Punishment for Crime from Constitution Amendment

Result: almost 80% voted yes

 

Vermont

Alabama ReferendumsPrhibit Slavery and Indentured Servitude Amendment

Result: 89% voted yes

 

 

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