2026 general election

Ballot measures, in plain English

103 statewide questions across 24 states and the District of Columbia. A measure is decided by whoever bothers to mark it, and it is the contest most often left blank — usually because the question on the ballot is written in statutory cross-reference rather than English.

Each page leads with the wording exactly as printed, then explains what it changes, what a yes vote does, what a no vote does, and what supporters and opponents actually say — set side by side at the same weight, because laying one column out more prominently than the other is still taking a side.