referendum
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Before that referendum, however, the legally required map would be the 2022 map.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
Like Laredo, League City southeast of Houston also will hold a nonbinding referendum on Flock cameras — a decision made mid-August, prior to Abbott’s funding freeze.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Micron’s stock has “become a referendum on the health of the AI build-out,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
She was pictured with residents of Piddington, who have voted to leave the UK in a symbolic referendum to protest the government housing migrants nearby.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The antis encouraged women not to vote in the referendum.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
State referenda can be difficult to poll, but surveys say Maine on Tuesday might have a couple of squeakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
Berlin, Hamburg and the Ruhr region are also developing bids, with referenda to be held in 2026.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2025
Among the hundreds of referenda passed across the country in the midterm elections, voters in four states approved provisions making slavery and involuntary servitude unconstitutional.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
Voting in most kind of referenda and elections has consistently declined since a high point in the 1970s.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2022
Once more in the history of suffrage referenda a foreign and colonized population decided the issue.
From Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment by Carrie Chapman Catt
According to the Washington Policy Center, the Washington Legislature Bill Drafting Guide says that a “necessity clause” or “emergency clause” protects legislation against voter referendums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Speaking of referendums, how about one to eliminate the State of the Union?
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
The passage of three referendums should ease city approval for new housing developments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
She said both governments entered into an agreement which committed to hold referendums and they should now start the preparations.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
On the ballot in November 1867, the men in Kansas faced two referendums, one that deleted the word “white” from the description of voters and a second that deleted the word “male.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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