Ballot initiatives

Idaho will not get to vote on legalizing medical marijuana this coming election. Among other shortcomings, the organization behind the ballot initiative failed to gather enough signatures.

Idaho voters will get to decide whether to restore abortion rights in the state this November after a campaign gathered enough signatures for the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act initiative to make it on the ballot.

An initiative to revoke Idaho’s strict abortion ban is one step closer to making it onto the ballot this November. Organizers behind the effort have gathered 30,000 more signatures than required.

The group behind Idaho’s abortion rights initiative has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from wealthy donors this past year.

Experts assess Idaho's ballot initiative process in lawmaking.

An Idaho grassroots organization is working to collect signatures for the initiative called the “Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act.”

A proposed constitutional amendment giving state lawmakers sole discretion over legalizing marijuana is heading to the state senate.

The attorney general, the secretary of state and the head of the Division of Financial Management are being sued for the way they wrote the ballot titles on a 2026 ballot initiative seeking to restore abortion rights in Idaho.

State senators will once again consider adding new restrictions to Idaho’s initiative process under a constitutional amendment that passed out of committee Friday.

Idaho Republicans once again have the ballot initiative process in their crosshairs this legislative session.