Ballot measures in Washington often have potentially huge impacts on the state’s budget and policies, yet voters often find measures too complicated or confusing to understand. Accurate and unbiased information is difficult to come by and often drowned out by well-funded for or against campaigns. This can result in passage of initiatives requiring the legislature to drastically change the budget or overturn the initiative.

A healthy democracy requires citizens who understand the measures they’re voting on. A pilot project of the Citizens’ Initiative Review will put accurate, clear and trustworthy information into the hands of Washington voters, cutting through the noise by providing them with an objective and factual evaluation of a proposed initiative using a unique deliberative process.