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Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Ballot Measures/Types is a sub-project of Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Ballot Measures. The purpose of the "types" subproject is to help organize BP articles about statewide ballot measures with respect to their legal type:

Legal types

Bond issue Veto referendum Legislative referral Constitutional convention Indirect initiative

Automatic ballot referral Initiated state statute Indirect initiated state statute Indirect initiative amendment

Grand jury by petition Commission referral Legislatively-referred state statute Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment

State-specific terms

• Ballot question (Colorado)
• Referendum (Colorado)
• Legislative Referendum (Michigan)
• Referendum Election (Navajo Nation)
• Referendum Bill (Washington)
• Initiatives to the People (Washington)
• Initiatives to the Legislature (Washington)

Chart abbreviations

If you're working on a chart, you will want to use abbreviations to represent the legal type of each ballot measure in the chart. Here are the standard abbreviations:

Type	Sentence abbrev.	Chart abbrev.	Displays as
legislatively-referred constitutional amendment	{{lrcafull}}	{{lrca}}	LRCA
legislatively-referred state statute	{{lrssfull}}	{{lrss}}	LRSS
initiated constitutional amendment	{{icafull}}	{{ica}}	CICA
initiated state statute	{{issfull}}	{{iss}}	CISS
veto referendum	{{vrfull}}	{{vr}}	VR
automatic ballot referral	{{abrfull}}	{{abr}}	ABR
commission referral	{{crfull}}	{{cr}}	CR
indirect initiated state statute	{{iissfull}}	{{iiss}}	IndISS

To-do list

• Establish categories for the legal types.
• Apply the categories by year.

Veto referendum

• Category:Veto referendum

• Category:Veto referenda in Alaska

• Category:Veto referendum, Alaska, 1968
• Category:Veto referendum, Alaska, 1976
• Category:Veto referendum, Alaska, 2000

• Category:Veto referenda in Arizona

• Category:Veto referendum, Arizona, 1998

• Category:Veto referenda in California

• Category:Veto referendum, California, 2000
• Category:Veto referendum, California, 2004
• Category:Veto referendum, California, 2008

• Category:Veto referendum, Maine

• Category:Veto referendum, Maine, 1910
• Category:Veto referendum, Maine, 1912
• Category:Veto referendum, Maine, 1914
• Category:Veto referendum, Maine, 1916
• Category:Veto referendum, Maine, 1920
• Category:Veto referendum, Maine, 1922
• Category:Veto referendum, Maine, 1925
• Category:Veto referendum, Maine, 1928
• Category:Veto referendum, Maine, 1929

• Category:Veto referendum, Washington

• Category:Veto referendum, Washington, 1914

Other subprojects

• Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Ballot Measures/States
• Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Ballot Measures/Years
• Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Ballot Measures/Topics
• Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Ballot Measures/Terms
• Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Ballot Measures/Charts
• Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Ballot Measures/Quality Improvement

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This page is part of WikiProject State Ballot Measures, a WikiProject including articles about: Types of ballot measures Specific statewide ballot measures Lists of statewide ballot measures by state. Lists of statewide ballot measures by year. Lists of statewide ballot measures by topic. Basic terms and concepts. To participate: join (or just read up) at the project page. Ballotpedia's Ballot Measures project is managed by Brittany Clingen. If you have any questions or comments please e-mail brittany.clingen@ballotpedia.org.