States
From Ballotpedia
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Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | District of Columbia | Florida
Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan
Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York
North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota
Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming
Native American tribes
Navajo Nation | Lumbee Nation18 states where citizens can initiate constitutional amendments
Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Florida | Illinois | Massachusetts | Michigan | Mississippi
Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | South Dakota
22 states where citizens can initiate new laws/statutes
Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Idaho | Maine | Massachusetts | Michigan | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska
Nevada | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | South Dakota | Utah | Washington | Washington, D.C. | Wyoming
25 states where citizens can overturn state statutes through veto referendum
Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | District of Columbia | Idaho | Kentucky | Maine | Maryland
Massachusetts | Michigan | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Mexico | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma
Oregon | South Dakota | Utah | Washington | Wyoming
18 states with the right of statewide recall
(36 states permit the recall of local officials)
Arizona | Alaska | California | Colorado | Georgia | Idaho | Kansas | Louisiana | Michigan | Minnesota
Montana | Nevada | New Jersey | North Dakota | Oregon | Rhode Island | Washington | Wisconsin
State with the right of statute affirmation
6 states with the right of citizen-initiated grand jury empanelment
Kansas | Nebraska | Nevada | New Mexico | North Dakota | Oklahoma |}
References and additional information
- Forms of direct democracy in the American states
- Understanding different types of ballot measures
- States with initiative or referendum
- Three states with veto referendum only
- Initiative states compared by number of initiatives on their ballot
- Initiative states in order of first appearance of an initiative on the ballot
- Initiative frequency as a factor of time allowed to collect signatures
