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Any voter may create a ballot initiative petition which proposes some measure (the text of the proposed measure is determined by the creator), and any other voter may sign it with some or all of their votes. If a petition is submitted in which 33% of the numbers of votes cast in the previous election have signed the petition, then the petition succeeds and the measure becomes a ballot initiative, and is put to the voters.
When a question is put to the voters via either a referendum or a ballot initiative, the following occurs.
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A referendum requires the same vote threshold among the voters that the measure would require in the Legislature.
