Then correct answers are A) petition must be filed by voters to begin the referendum process. B) Only new laws or recent amendments to existing laws are considered. C) The legislature must accept the referendum before it goes to voters.
The statements that correctly describe the referendum process are the following: petition must be filed by voters to begin the referendum process, only new laws or recent amendments to existing laws are considered, and the legislature must accept the referendum before it goes to voters.
We are talking about the referendum process in the state of Michigan. The two ways citizens cant begin with the process are a "directly initiated constitutional amendment" or an "indirectly initiated state statute." They have to collect enough signs to send the petition to the legislature of the state. Once there, state Congressmen has forty days to make a decision: to accept the petition or reject it. If it is rejected it is again considered in the next ballot. But in this state, citizens can use their veto power to revocate the decision.
