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This page provides information on voter-approved state and local ballot measures in 2022 that change election policy and government structures. Topics addressed by the ballot measures include voting policies, term limits, election changes, district name changes, and rules governing state legislatures.
To read more about voter-approved state changes, click here.
To read more about voter-approved local changes, click here.
HIGHLIGHTS
Approved state ballot measures
- Amendment 4: Prohibits legislation that changes election laws relating to the conduct of general elections during the six months before a general election.
- Amendment 5: Removes orphans' business from the jurisdiction of county probate courts.
- Proposition 131: Creates the position of lieutenant governor, who would be elected on a joint ticket with the governor, and who would succeed the governor in case of a vacancy. The first election for a joint governor and lieutenant governor ticket will be on November 3, 2026.
- Amendment D: Directs the governor to assign judges from the 18th Judicial District to the new 23rd Judicial District by November 30, 2024.
- Question 1: Amends the state constitution to authorize the state legislature to pass a law for in-person early voting.
- Note: Question 1 authorized the legislature to enact early voting. Question 1 itself did not change the policy; the legislature is likely to pass a law in 2023.
- Constitutional Amendment SJR 102: Allows the president pro tempore of the state Senate and the speaker of the state House to convene a special session of the Idaho State Legislature upon receiving a joint written request from 60% of the members of each chamber.
- Amendment 1: Provides that "No person who is not a citizen of the United States shall be allowed to register and vote in this state."
- Question 1: Renames the following:
- Maryland Court of Appeals → Supreme Court of Maryland
- Maryland Court of Special Appeals → Appellate Court of Maryland
- Judge of the Court of Appeals → Justice of the Supreme Court
- Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals → Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
- Question 5: Requires that Howard County Circuit Court judges serve as orphans' court judges and removes the election requirement of three orphans' court judges.
- Proposal 1: Changes the term limits for state legislators from three 2-year terms (6 years) in the state House and two 4-year terms (8 years) in the state Senate to 12 combined years in the legislature.
- Proposal 2: Adds several election and voting-related policies to the Michigan Constitution, including some policies that exist in statute and others which would be new. Provisions added to the constitution include:
- creating a nine-day early voting period;
- requiring voters to present photo identification or sign an affidavit when voting in person or applying for an absentee ballot;
- requiring that military and overseas ballots postmarked by election day are counted;
- providing voters with a constitutional right to request an absentee ballot;
- requiring the state to fund a number of absentee ballot dropboxes;
- providing that local governments can accept charitable and in-kind donations to assist with running elections as long as donations are disclosed and aren’t from foreign entities; and
- providing that election officials are responsible for election audits, requiring election audits to be conducted in public, and requiring election results to be certified based on votes cast.
- Amendment 5: Provides the state’s national guard with an executive department called the Missouri Department of the National Guard.
- Initiative 432: Amends the state constitution to require valid photo identification in order to vote and authorizes the legislature to pass laws to further define the photo identification requirements.
- Amendment 3: Provides that an appointed judge shall be up for election at the first general election one year after being appointed.
- Constitutional Measure 1: Creates new term limits, including:
- limiting the governor to serving two four-year terms
- limiting state legislators to serving eight years in the state House and eight years in the state Senate
Ohio:
- Issue 2: Prohibits non-citizen voting in the state; in other words, the amendment preempts the government, including local governments, from allowing non-citizens to vote in certain elections in the future.
- Measure 113: Disqualifies legislators from re-election following the end of their term if they are absent from 10 legislative floor sessions without permission or excuse.
- Constitutional Amendment 2: Amends the state constitution to provide a process, along with a line of succession, for an acting governor when the governor is unable to perform the office's powers and duties.
Approved local ballot measures
Ballotpedia covers local ballot measures for the top 100 cities and state capitals, including their intersecting jurisdictions, such as counties or special districts. We also cover local ballot measures in California and a select number of policing-related and election-related local measures.
Ranked-choice voting measures
- Ojai, California, Measure M: Establishes the use of ranked-choice voting, starting in the November 2024 general election.
- Fort Collins, Colorado, Ballot Question 2C: Adopts ranked-choice voting for mayor and city council beginning in 2025.
- Evanston, Illinois, RCV Measure: Adopts ranked-choice voting for municipal elections beginning in April 2025.
- Portland, Maine, RCV Measure: Creates a proportional ranked-choice voting method for elections in which more than one person is to be elected to a single office (i.e. a multiple-seat election).
- Multnomah County, Oregon, Measure 26-232: Enacts ranked-choice voting for countywide offices, including chair, commissioners, audit, and sheriff beginning in 2026.
- Portland, Oregon, Measure 26-228: Makes several changes to government structure and elections beginning in 2024, including:
- removing the mayor from the city council;
- increasing the size of the city council to 12, with three members representing a district; and
- enacts ranked-choice voting for city elections.
- Seattle, Washington, Proposition 1A and 1B: Enacts ranked-choice voting for city primaries. Seattle would continue to have top-two primaries as well; in other words, the top-two vote recipients after a ranked-choice voting process would move onto the general election. The proposition did not include a specific date for implementation; rather, it requires the city to implement ranked-choice voting no later than 2027.
Local ballot measures by state
- Kern County, California, Measure J: Limits members of the Kern County Board of Supervisors to a maximum of two four-year terms.
- Long Beach, California, Measure LBC: Amends the City Charter to change the city’s primary and general election dates to align with the state’s election dates.
- Long Beach Unified School District, California, Measure LBU: Amends the City Charter to change the district’s primary and general election dates to align with the state’s election dates.
- Oakland, California, Measure S: Allows noncitizen residents who are parents, legal guardians, or legal caregivers of a public school student to vote for school board directors.
- Oakland, California, Measure X: Establishes term limits of three consecutive four-year terms for city council members.
- Santa Ana, California, Measure X: Adopts term limits of four terms for the mayor and three terms for city council members.
- Santa Ana Unified School District, California, Measure H: Adopts term limits of three terms for school board members.
- San Francisco, California, Proposition H: Changes elections for mayor, sheriff, district attorney, city attorney, and treasurer from odd-numbered years to even-numbered presidential election years.
- Fort Collins, Colorado, Ballot Question 2B: Moves the city's elections from April in odd-numbered years to November in even-numbered years.
- Fort Collins, Colorado, Ballot Question 2C: Adopts ranked-choice voting for mayor and city council beginning in 2025.
- Hialeah, Florida, Charter Amendment: Changes the day a newly elected mayor assumes office from the third day after the election to the second Monday in January following the election, beginning with the election held in November 2025.
- St. Petersburg, Florida, Charter Amendment 1: Moves the city's elections from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years, coinciding with state and national elections, beginning in 2024.
- Wichita Public Schools, Kansas, Measure: Requires district-based elections for school board members, except the at-large member, at general elections.
- Baltimore, Maryland, Question K: Establishes a two-term limit for elected city officials, including the mayor, comptroller, city council president, and city council members. Effective beginning with persons elected in the 2024 municipal election.
- Henderson, Nevada, Question 1: Requires that city council candidates be elected by the voters of the ward that they seek to represent, rather than by voters citywide
- Multnomah County, Oregon, Measure 26-232: Enacts ranked-choice voting for countywide offices, including chair, commissioners, audit, and sheriff beginning in 2026.
- Portland, Oregon, Measure 26-228: Makes several changes to government structure and elections beginning in 2024, including:
- removing the mayor from the city council;
- increasing the size of the city council to 12, with three members representing a district; and
- enacts ranked-choice voting for city elections
- Arlington, Texas, Proposition A: Makes the terms of mayor and city council members three years, establishes a 9-year term limit for the mayor and a 9-year term limit for city council members, and provides for staggered terms of office.
- King County, Washington, Charter Amendment 1: Moves the election dates for county executive, assessor, director of elections, and councilmembers from odd-numbered to even-numbered years beginning in 2026.
- Seattle, Washington, Proposition 1A and 1B: Enacts ranked-choice voting for city primaries. Seattle would continue to have top-two primaries as well; in other words, the top-two vote recipients after a ranked-choice voting process would move onto the general election. The proposition did not include a specific date for implementation; rather, it requires the city to implement ranked-choice voting no later than 2027.
See also
- 2022 ballot measures
- Voting policy measures on the ballot
- Elections and campaigns on the ballot
- Local elections and campaigns on the ballot
