But state voters will have a chance to reinstate it via a ballot initiative in November.

Maine voters could set a model for other areas of the country to follow with a rare hostile takeover of the electric powers that be.

The battle over reproductive rights is culminating in a fight over whether to allow voters to simply read the truth about the amendment they’re voting on.

It's beginning to look as if anti-abortion policies are profoundly unpopular with ordinary Americans.

Republicans lost a big ballot initiative fight in Ohio this week, but their war against voters is destined to continue.

This is a huge victory for democracy—and for abortion rights.

Republicans noticed that their policies are even unpopular with the voters who elected them. They’re working to thwart their will.

The fight over reproductive rights in the Buckeye State begins with an August special election on an obscure ballot measure.

Conservatives have been trying to stop efforts to protect abortion rights with a confusingly worded ballot.

The move could block abortion protections, gun reform, and more.

Kansans overwhelmingly voted to protect the right to abortion in an August referendum. Now state Republicans want to overrule the will of the voters and ban it anyway.

After this election, recreational marijuana use will soon be legal in 21 states and D.C.

A slew of ballot initiatives are allowing millions of Americans the chance to overhaul how their elections are run.

The Golden State’s use of recall elections and ballot initiatives was a bad idea from the beginning. It’s an immeasurably worse one now.

Gavin Newsom’s wayward political career is not the biggest thing at stake.

In 2016, voters passed a raft of liberal ballot initiatives. Now Republicans are throwing them out.

Democrats hope to reprise 2004, when anti-gay marriage initiatives helped George W. Bush. But liberal measures may not have the same oomph.

In 2016, ballot measures in states could raise the political stakes of the issue.