Montenegro declares independence either after a ballot, or in response to a move from Belgrade to reassert control.
The Virginia amendment reached the ballot partly in response to a national wave of anti-union sentiment, according to Bell and other supporters.
The $3 billion California Institute for Regenerative Medicine was created by a state ballot initiative in response to the Bush-era restrictions, for example, and expects to run out of money after 2020 without a new source of funding.
Unlike some lawmakers who have proposed increasing the fee for filing ballot measures in response to McLaughlin's proposal, Laws said she was happy it was relatively inexpensive for citizens to file measures – and responses like hers.
The most strenuous disapproval of the evening — expressed via boos as well as by ballots — came in response to a suggested 5-cent surcharge on alcoholic drinks, a budget boost valued at $600 million.
"Normally, when marriage comes up on the ballot, it's in response to a court case or legislative action and at most — as in 2009 here and in Maryland and Washington — you have six months to really go out and defend whatever that court or legislature did," Mr. McTighe said.
Newsom, who is running for governor, authored a gun control ballot initiative partly in response to a mass shooting that left nine dead at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.
An additional 5percentt of ballot papers were distributed in response to shortages reported throughout several provinces in round one.
The measure on Tuesday's ballot, called Amendment 6, was in response to a citizen-driven initiative to create weeks of early voting, which didn't receive enough signatures to be on the ballot.
The watchdog position was created by a voter-approved ballot measure in 2009, partly in response to soaring settlement costs in employee harassment and discrimination lawsuits at the department.
