The lawsuit takes aim at an upcoming measure that, if approved, would make it virtually impossible for most citizen-led ...

Senate President Pro Tem Cindy O'Laughlin, a Shelbina Republican, listens to comments in the Senate chambers in regarding the ...

Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) thinks Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) ambitious plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts ahead ...

Michelle Wolchok, president of the League of Women Voters of Washington County, collects a signature for a ballot measure sponsored by the group on July 2, 2025. (Antoinette Grajeda/Arkansas Advocate) ...

San Diego homeowners get to contest proposed additions to property tax bills. The increases would pay for additions for trash collection that didn’t exist when voters narrowly approved Measure B in ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — There are two ballot initiatives to strengthen direct democracy in Arkansas, both facing a more difficult road to the ballot this year because of new state laws that aim to crack ...

Attorney General Tim Griffin: While generally not a fan of direct democracy, on Wednesday he ran out of reasons to reject a proposed amendment from the League of Women Voters. Credit: Brian Chilson ...

The Arkansas attorney general's office signed off on ballot language Wednesday for a proposed constitutional amendment to reform direct democracy in the state, allowing the group behind the effort to ...

Next month’s election in Northern Colorado and the Boulder Valley will be brimming with citizen-initiated ballot issues that ...

Serbia's student protest movement has no leaders, and its decision-making process is slow and laborious, but activists swear by its founding principle: direct democracy via meetings on campus. The ...