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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

176 Ballot Measures Nationwide on Election Day

In addition to presidential, congressional, state, and municipal candidates, American voters have a total of 176 ballot initiatives to decide. Alabama voters will determine whether to remove language regarding school segregation from the state constitution. Californians are voting on whether to end the death penalty in favor of automatic life without a chance of parole and whether to increase the penalty for sex traffickers. Voters in Maine may overturn the state ban on same sex marriage and Maryland voters are voting on whether to allow same sex marriage in the state. In Minnesota, voters may add an amendment to the state constitution which would require all voters to present photo identification in order to vote. On the ballot in North Dakota is an amendment that would remove the authority to require a poll tax from the state constitution and on the ballot in Oklahoma is a measure to ban affirmative action in all state programs. 

Read the entire list here.