Initiative & Referendum Information on the Web

Initiative & Referendum Links

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

California Voter Foundation - http://www.calvoter.org/ - 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.

Election Administration Resources - http://www.debexar.com/elecnet/index.cfm - Listings of US federal, state, and local elections offices on the Internet (over 400 links).

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association - http://www.hjta.org/ - Dedicated to protecting California's Prop. 13 and promoting taxpayers' rights.

Initiative & Referendum Institute - http://www.iandrinstitute.org - 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 - http://www.initiativefortexas.org/ - 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 Voter Outreach - http://www.directdemocracy.com/ - 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 - http://politicalresources.com/ - Links for issue and candidate campaigns.

Public Policy Institute of California - http://www.ppic.org/ - Includes numerous publications and surveys on the initiative process in California.

Speaker's Commission on the California Initiative Project - http://www.cainitiative.org/ - A non-partisan commission formed by California State Assembly Speaker Robert M. Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys) to examine California's initiative process, recommend ways to improve the system and make it more responsive to voters.

The Smart Initiatives Project - http://www.geocities.com/virtualorange/index.html - The Smart Initiatives movement is working to give all citizens the right and the means to sign initiative and other official petitions online, with binding legal effect, using free digital certificates issued by state governments.

State Agency Web Sites

Alaska Division of Elections - http://www.gov.state.ak.us/ltgov/elections/homepage.html

Arizona Secretary of State - http://www.sos.state.az.us/election/

Arkansas Secretary of State - http://sos.state.ar.us/elections.html

California Secretary of State - http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections.htm

Colorado Secretary of State - http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/main.htm

Colorado General Assembly - http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/lcsstaff/balpage.htm

Florida Department of State - http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/lcsstaff/balpage.htm

Idaho Secretary of State - http://www.idsos.state.id.us/elect/eleindex.htm

Illinois State Board of Elections - http://www.elections.state.il.us/ElecInfo/pages/welcome.asp

Maine Secretary of State - http://www.state.me.us/sos/cec/elec/elec.htm

Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth - http://www.state.ma.us/sec/ele/eleidx.htm

Michigan Secretary of State - www.michigan.gov/sos/0,1607,7-127-1633---,00.html

Mississippi Secretary of State - http://www.sos.state.ms.us/elections/elections.asp

Missouri Secretary of State - http://www.sos.mo.gov/section4.asp

Montana Secretary of State - http://sos.state.mt.us/css/ELB/Contents.asp

Nebraska Secretary of State - http://www.nol.org/home/SOS/Elections/election.htm

Nevada Secretary of State - http://sos.state.nv.us/nvelection/index.htm

North Dakota Secretary of State - http://www.state.nd.us/sec/Elections/Elections.htm

Ohio Secretary of State - http://serform.sos.state.oh.us/sos/

Oklahoma State Election Board - http://www.state.ok.us/~elections/

Oregon Secretary of State - http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/elechp.htm

South Dakota Secretary of State - http://www.state.sd.us/sos/Elections home page.htm

Utah State Elections Office - http://elections.utah.gov/

Washington Secretary of State - http://www.secstate.wa.gov/elections/

Wyoming Secretary of State - http://soswy.state.wy.us/election/election.htm

For more information on Initiative and Referendum - please contact Jennie Bowser elections-info@ncsl.org