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This year’s big ballot initiatives to watch

There are more than 150 ballot initiatives at the state level capable of creating change.

11/02/2016 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

This year’s big ballot initiatives to watch

Clip: 11/2/2016 | 7m 53s

There are more than 150 ballot initiatives at the state level capable of creating change.

There are more than 150 ballot initiatives this year at the state level, capable of creating huge change for voters. Nine states are voting on the legalization of recreational or medical marijuana. Other measures concern gun control, the minimum wage and the death penalty. John Yang learns more from John Myers of the Los Angeles Times and Josh Altic of Ballotpedia for more.

11/02/2016 | Rating NR

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