DIRECT DEMOCRACY WATCH 2016 edition

[Alcon]

you are amazing crabcake

[Ebsy]

You missed the 6 issues on the Missouri ballot - two tobacco taxes pushed by various interest groups in an attempt to f[Inks] each other, campaign finance contribution limits, a ban on new sales taxes, conservation sales tax renewal, and Voter ID.

[pikachu]

Any interesting local questions that people are aware of? I know San Francisco has a question on lowering the voting age.

Los Angeles has votes to increase the sales tax for public transit funding and another for buying bonds to deal with the homelessness crisis. Santa Monica has a pretty terrible one that would require a vote on every development over 32 feet.

Lol nimbys

There's an even worse one coming in March.

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oh yeah, forgot a fairly significant one:

DC will have an advisory statehood referendum question on the ballot. It will ask whether the Council should petition Congress to accept it as a state. Happily, they've dropped the lame "New Columbia", the new state would be called Washington DC (although the "DC" will no longer stand for "District of Columbia" but "Douglass Commonwealth".

[Figueira]

oh yeah, forgot a fairly significant one:

DC will have an advisory statehood referendum question on the ballot. It will ask whether the Council should petition Congress to accept it as a state. Happily, they've dropped the lame "New Columbia", the new state would be called Washington DC (although the "DC" will no longer stand for "District of Columbia" but "Douglass Commonwealth".

YES!

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Whew