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Links to More I&R Information

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NOTE:  These links are provided for informational purposes only.  NCSL does not endorse any of the organizations listed below.

Ballot Initiative Strategy Center - Seeks to build new funding, research, and training infrastructure to support progressive ballot measures.

California Voter Foundation - A non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to applying new technologies to provide the public with access to the information needed to participate in public life in a meaningful way.

Delaware Initiative & Referendum Project - A citizens' group that seeks to implement I&R in Delaware.

Vote 411 - A project of the League of Women Voters that provides election information, including candidate and ballot issue info.

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association - Dedicated to protecting California's Prop. 13 and promoting taxpayers' rights.

Initiative & Referendum Institute - The Initiative & Referendum Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan, educational and research organization that analyzes, promotes and defends the initiative and referendum process.

Initiative for Texas - a non-partisan project whose sole purpose is to obtain for Texans the right of direct binding initiative for state laws and constitutional amendments.

National Direct Democracy Conference - This conference, sponsored by Center for Governmental Studies at the University of Virginia in June 2000, assembled a variety of perspectives to take a timely and comprehensive look at the many different aspects of the issue.

National Voter Outreach - NVO is a political consulting firm specializing in organizing signature drives to qualify issues and candidates for the ballot throughout the United States.

Political Resources Online - Links for issue and candidate campaigns.

Public Policy Institute of California - Includes numerous publications and surveys on the initiative process in California.

Portland City Club - A report on Oregon's initiative process released in 2008

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Oklahoma State Election Board

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South Dakota Secretary of State

Utah State Elections Office

Washington Secretary of State

Wyoming Secretary of State

For More Information

For more information on initiative and referendum, please contact Jennie Drage Bowser in NCSL's Denver office.

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