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Ballotpedia's Tuesday Count for 2016
This chart shows on a week-by-week basis the number of ballot measures that were certified for the 2016 ballot.[1]
Certified means that the relevant state election authority legally determined that the ballot measure would be on a statewide ballot.
Ballot measures listed in the third column were certified in the week leading up to that Tuesday's count.
One of the reasons that Ballotpedia staffers create this week-by-week certification chart each year (starting in 2010) is to enable a rough estimate as the year progresses about how many total measures will ultimately be on the ballot. That's because there is a rough correlation between how many measures are certified on, say, June 15 and how many ultimately qualify for the ballot.[2]
At times, court cases are decided that remove certified measures. If that should happen, the change in certification status will be documented here.
Tuesday Count chart
Footnotes
- ↑ If it was discovered in, for example, June that the chart had been missing a measure all year that was legally certified before January 1, the chart was retroactively updated in each cell to reflect that reality.
- ↑ "Ballot measures certified over time"
