Initiative & Referendum Reform Task Force

Links

Go to State Agency Web Sites

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.

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

Election Administration Resources - Listings of US federal, state, and local elections offices on the Internet (over 400 links).

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.

Speaker's Commission on the California Initiative Project - 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 - 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.