Ballot measure takeaways: Voters back abortion rights and voter ID

In ballot measures across the country Tuesday, voters mostly expressed support for abortion rights, while affirming voter identification requirements and upholding that only U.S. citizens can vote in state elections. Nearly 150 ballot measures were at stake in more than three dozen states. The most prominent, and expensive, initiative was a proposed billionaire tax in California, but the outcome remained uncertain as votes continued to be tallied Wednesday. Still, voters directly determined the direction of policies in their states related to other taxes, voting issues, transgender rights and more. Here is a roundup of the most notable ballot measure results. Abortion rights Four ballot measures asked voters to amend their state constitutions in ways that would affirm or retract abortion rights.

In Nevada and Virginia, where abortion access through fetal viability is legal, voters weighed in on ballot measures that would enshrine those rights in each state’s constitution. Voters in both states overwhelmingly passed those initiatives by a margin of at least 24 percentage points. In Nevada, the vote was the second on the measure because the state constitution requires citizen-initiated constitutional amendments to pass in two consecutive general elections. In Missouri, voters rejected a GOP-backed ballot measure that proposed stripping language enshrining abortion rights from the state constitution that had been added in 2024. That year, voters approved a