Signatures for State Initiatives Due Today

Today is the deadline for initiative campaigns to submit signatures to the Washington Secretary of State for the November ballot.  Washington requires 241,000 valid signatures for an initiative to be placed on a ballot.

Over sixty proposed initiatives were filed with the Secretary of State.  As of today, six initiatives appear to have met the signature requirement and will be on the November 2010 ballot.

  • I-1100: Privatizes liquor sales
  • I-1082: Privatizes workers’ compensation option
  • I-1105: Privatizes liquor but includes some state controls around pricing and licensing
  • I-1053: (Re)Institutes a two-thirds majority rule on the Legislature for raising taxes
  • I-1098: High earners income tax
  • I-1107: Repeals the recently passed tax on soda.