Ballotpedia: Law Project
From Ballotpedia
- Laws governing ballot measures
Next steps
1. Expand articles about local recall laws for New York, Oklahoma, Virginia.
2. Clean up {{Laws governing the initiative process}}, {{Laws governing ballot measures}}
3. Establish writing guidelines
4. Ballotpedia:State Constitutions project/2010
Writing guidelines
Templates
These templates are in use in this project (also see law templates):
Identifying badge:
- {{law badge}} links to Ballot Measure Law and should go anywhere that it will be convenient to have a quick way to access that portal page.
Navigational templates:
- {{Law}}
- {{Signature requirements}}
- {{Laws governing the initiative process}}
- {{Types of ballot measures}}
- {{lawsuit}}
- {{Requirements}}
- {{Campaign finance laws}}
- {{School bond and tax elections}}
- {{State constitutions}} (related)
Improvement templates:
- {{Law update}}
- {{Law expand}}
- {{Law intro}}
- {{Law missing}}
- {{Law quality}}
- {{law sprout}}
List of all signature requirement charts in one place:
Articles to improve
- See also: Articles to improve
As the project develops, some pages may be rapidly created and may need to be revisited at a later point. For more on articles that are missing components or may need improvement, click here.
- {{law update}}
- {{law expand}}
- {{law intro}}
- {{law missing}}
- {{law quality}}
Desired articles
- Hurst v. State Ballot Law Commission (Massachusetts 1998)
- Advisory Opinion to Attorney General re Independent Nonpartisan Commission
- Fine v. Firestone
- Rivera-Cruz v. Gray, 1958, Florida
- Livermore v. Waite, California
- Burson v. Freeman, 1992
- Morse v. Frederick, 2007
- Gathright v. City of Portland, 2006
- Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., 1995
See also
