Voters’ Guide to 2020 Ballot Initiatives

Voters planning to participate in the 2020 election have more to consider than who they will vote for in the highly contentious presidential election. In addition to the election of national, state, and local leaders, this year, voters in many states have a number of ballot initiatives to consider. Statewide ballot initiatives typically allow voters to decide on changes to their state constitutions and laws.

Reason Foundation’s policy analysts have created Voters’ Guides on 43 different ballot proposals to help voters as they research and make decisions on these initiatives. These guides aim to:

• Provide plain-English explanations of what a given ballot initiative would do, stripping away the jargon and complex language that can make many of them hard to parse through.
• Fairly summarize the pro and con arguments being made, putting an emphasis on what each side puts forward as their strongest arguments but stripping out ad-hominem and attack arguments so it stays focused on substantive policy arguments.
• Provide an overview of the key issues involved, summarizing what data and research say about the arguments of both sides, flagging experience other states may have had with similar laws, and offering other information that might help voters decide about the initiative.

In these Voters’ Guides, you will find an analysis of all the statewide ballot initiatives in:

• Florida
• Nevada
• Georgia
• Michigan