Interactive Feature

Key Ballot Initiatives

October 28, 2010 | ISSUE 46•43

American voters will confront a variety of ballot initiatives when they go to the polls Nov. 2. Rollover to reveal some of the key referendums in states across the nation:

  • Florida Referendum 10

    State sales tax on alcoholic beverages repealed for ladies every Thursday

  • North Carolina: Referendum 2

    Three-carton increase to every resident’s annual state-funded cigarette stipend

  • Kansas: Prop 4

    Closes so-called 'book-fair loophole' in state's mandatory five-day waiting period to purchase literature

  • Colorado: Proposition 13

    All novelty shirts to be at least 23 percent funnier

  • Nevada: Proposition 6

    Would legalize and tax the sale of bags of oregano to dumb 13-year-olds

  • California: Proposition 11

    Make it illegal to text while someone is saying something really important to you

  • Wisconsin: I-3325

    Repeals propositions I-3, I-9, I-14, I-22b, and I-28 from previous elections