2026 Ballots Feature Major Abortion, Redistricting And Voter ID Measures

Voters across the United States are deciding high-profile ballot measures on abortion rights, congressional redistricting and voter ID on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.^[1]

In all, 145 proposed laws and constitutional amendments appeared on ballots nationwide. The measures range from efforts to expand abortion protections to initiatives that would change how congressional maps are drawn and how voters prove their eligibility.

Idaho, Nevada and Virginia each put measures before voters to establish pre-viability or early-pregnancy abortion protections, with Nevada's question requiring a second approval after it first passed in 2024. Missouri's ballot asks voters to repeal the state's 2024 abortion-rights amendment and replace it with a new ban that includes specified exceptions.

Missouri and Maryland asked about authorizing new congressional redistricting for the 2028 elections, and Colorado's initiative would bar partisan-gerrymandered maps for 2028. Citizen-led measures in California, Colorado and Nevada would require government-issued ID to vote, while legislatively referred amendments in North Carolina and Ohio would enshrine voter ID rules in state constitutions.

Ballot questions in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, South Dakota and West Virginia would specify that only U.S. citizens may vote. Colorado voters also considered a constitutional amendment to require law enforcement to notify the Department of Homeland Security when people with illegal or unknown immigration status face certain serious criminal charges, and Arizona voters weighed a measure to restrict speed and red-light camera contracts beginning in 2027 and require local referendums to keep existing systems.

1. PBS News