Ballot Measures 101

There are multiple measures in front of Nebraska voters this year – and a lot had to happen for them to get there. 

Advocates who collected signatures on petitions had to clear a high bar: 10% of the state’s registered voters for petitions that could change the state Constitution, 7% for petitions that could enact a new law. And 5% for referendum petitions, which ask voters to decide to keep or scrap a recently passed law. 

Signatures for every type of petition have to be distributed across the state, accounting for 5% of voters in at least 38 of the state’s 93 counties.