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Voter ID, ‘Billionaire Tax’ and 5 Other Big Midterm State Ballot Initiatives to Watch

It isn’t just Congress that’s up for grabs during the midterm elections.

On Tuesday, voters will decide more than 140 proposed measures that could have enormous impact on contested issues such as election security, taxpayer-funded diversity trainings, voting rights for felons, and gender-transitioning procedures for children.

Voter ID and Proof of Citizenship

Election security is one of the biggest questions up for debate this election cycle.

One ballot initiative in Arizona, Proposition 144, would amend the state constitution to ban foreign funding in state elections and expand voter ID and proof of citizenship requirements.

The initiative, if passed, would “prohibit a foreign national from making contributions in an effort to influence an Arizona election, and prohibit others from knowingly accepting such contributions.”

Arizona currently has a voter ID requirement, but this law would extend that mandate to mail-in voting. Voters would have to submit a valid, government issued ID to vote though the mail in process.

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California has a similar initiative on the ballot, Proposition 39.

Voting Rights for Felons

Virginia’s Question 3 aims to restore the voting rights of some felons with active sentences. The initiative, which would restore rights “upon release from incarceration,” has bipartisan support,........

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