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How lawmakers are restricting citizen-led ballot initiatives

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63% Informative

Voters in 24 states and the District of Columbia can bypass their legislatures by gathering signatures to get proposed laws on the ballot.

About 40 bills in roughly a dozen states are now being considered or have been signed into law to restrict this process.

Dane Waters , head of the non-partisan Initiative and Referendum Institute , joins John Yang to discuss.

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67

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67

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29

Article tone

formal

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English

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46

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not offensive

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short-lived

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