Sentence examples for ballot referendum from inspiring English sources

But same-sex marriage has never won a ballot referendum.

2011 A ballot referendum to finance a new arena next door to Nassau Coliseum is defeated.

Until Tuesday, no state had ever legalized same-sex marriage through a ballot referendum.

Same-sex marriage has never won a ballot referendum, but that may soon change.

Voters would have to approve any change to the Constitution by ballot referendum.

A statewide ballot referendum, on whether to abolish Connecticut's system of county sheriffs, was approved.

But this November Oregon's voters passed a ballot referendum, known as Measure 37, that rolled back many of those protections.

New Jersey may also have a ballot referendum on whether to legalise same-sex marriage in the state.

He said the New Jersey Constitution required that borrowing that much money be approved by voters in a ballot referendum.

Last year anti-gay activists promoted Act 1, a ballot referendum that broadened the ban to include unmarried heterosexual couples.

In 2009, then governor John Baldacci signed a law allowing same-sex marriage, but that law was narrowly struck down later in the year in a ballot referendum.