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We also offer Future Referendum Ideas — creative ideas to research and develop.
See also Past Referendums for 2020, 2023, and 2024. There were none worth reporting for 2021.
California
Proposition 1:
Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment
The “Yes” vote was 76%.
Kansas
Value Them Both Amendment
Voted on August 2
The “Yes” vote was only 41%; the “
No” vote was 59%.
Kentucky
Amendment 2:
No Right to Abortion in Constitution Amendment
The “Yes” vote was 47%; the “No” vote was 53%.
Michigan
Proposal 3:
Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative
The “Yes” vote was 56%.
Montana
Montana LR-131:
Medical Care Requirements for Born-Alive Infants Measure
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.
The “Yes” vote was only 46%, and the “No” vote was 54%.
Vermont
Proposal 5:
Right to Personal Reproductive Autonomy Amendment
The “Yes” vote was 77%.
No referendums promoting or restricting the death penalty were found for 2022.
We oppose the death penalty, so we would rate anything helping to abolish or restrict it positively, and anything to promote it or remove restrictions negatively.
The form that goes on the ballot is normally called “assisted suicide” or “hastened death.” We found nothing in this form for 2022.
This is good news, since in most places referendums are efforts to introduce this practice.
Colorado
Reduce Income Tax Deduction Amounts to Fund School Meals Program Measure
The “Yes” vote was 56.75%.
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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Nebraska
Minimum Wage Increase Initiative
The “Yes” vote was 56%.
Nevada
Minimum Wage Increase Amendment
The “Yes” vote was 54%.
South Dakota
Constitutional Amendment D: Medicaid Expansion Initiative
The “Yes” vote was 56%.
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. As another positive, this state constitution retains a previous no-right-to-abortion provision.
The “Yes” vote was 76%.
Louisiana
Remove Involuntary Servitude as a Punishment for a Crime Constitution Amendment
This one is more complicated; see our Louisiana page. Short version: wording was unclear, so another attempt will be made with better wording, hopefully in 2023.
Oregon
Remove Slavery as a Punishment for a Crime Constitution Amendment
The “Yes” vote was 55%.
Tennessee
Remove Slavery as a Punishment for Crime from Constitution Amendment
The “Yes” vote was almost 80%.
Vermont
Prohibit Slavery and Indentured Servitude Amendment
The “Yes” vote was 89%.
War is never directly on the ballot, of course, but occasionally issues related to war could be suitable for our attention. None were found for 2022.
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