Despite stating that signatures collected for the data centers ballot initiative didn’t meet the July 13 deadline established by state law, a district judge didn’t make a ruling about the petitioners’ lawsuit.
BUTTE, Mont. -- A ballot initiative to put the idea of building a data center in Butte up to a vote, which had collected the necessary signatures to appear in the November elections, may not appear on the ballot after all.
(The Center Square) - The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that an initiative to regulate the state’s school choice program appears to lack enough valid signatures to qualify for the Nov. 3 ballot.
Residents in Huntington angered over their city council’s approval of a $2.1 million contract with Flock Safety to install license plate readers, cameras and more throughout the city are organizing a weekend-long canvassing campaign later this month to collect the signatures for their ballot initiative petition. The residents, led by Huntington Community Action Group, a […]
On Tuesday, a Yellowstone County District Court judge upheld the state’s largest county’s decision to invalidate a proposed ballot initiative that would have required two-thirds of the residents’ approval before constructing a data center. With the window for signature gathering all but closed to make the ballot deadline in 2026, the first major legal challenge […]
Voters will decide whether to upend campaign finance in Michigan when they head to the polls in November as outrage over money in politics intensifies pressure for reform. The ballot proposal is one of the most significant efforts to curb outside spending in state politics after a years-long stalemate in Lansing. If it passes, some […]
Amid a historic drought, record heat and a deadly wildfire season, Coloradans will be asked by a right-wing “dark money” group this year to enshrine a “right” to a major source of climate pollution in the state constitution. Backers of Initiative 177, led by the group Advance Colorado, submitted enough petition signatures to qualify for […]
A campaign seeking to make it harder for lawmakers to alter voter-approved initiatives sued Secretary of State Denny Hoskins on Thursday, asking a judge to overturn his decision blocking the proposed constitutional amendment from the November ballot. The lawsuit, filed in Cole County Circuit Court by three Missourians who signed the Respect Missouri Voters petition, […]
Weeks after Huntington City Council voted to move forward with the purchase of a $2.1 million Flock surveillance system, organizers against the proposal are starting an effort that, if successful, would prohibit the devices in the city.
It’s the second stop requested of the court by Kassi Solberg, with the first looking to permanently halt the county’s controversial restrictions on signature gathering.
