This year, there will not be any ballot initiatives expanding gun rights and the major ones will be focusing on background checks. 

In Nevada, Question 1 would require that the transfer of a firearm from an unlicensed individual to another unlicensed individual must undergo a background check from a licensed dealer. A similar ballot initiative known as Question 3 is being proposed in Maine. 

Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, Michael Bloomberg’s spending group that supports gun control, is supporting both initiatives.

Another ballot initiative in Washington state would allow for law enforcement, family and household members to obtain a court order to prevent someone they think would present a significant danger from obtaining firearms.

The initiative bears a  resemblance to the gun violence restraining order in California, which also has a ballot initiative that would require background checks to purchase ammunition and prohibit the possession of high-capacity magazines.

In 2014, Nebraska’s legislature overrode Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts’ veto of a bill abolishing the death penalty in the conservative state. On Tuesday, Nebraskans will vote whether they want to repeal the ban or maintain it.

Ricketts, who is part of the family that owns the newly-minted World Series champion Chicago Cubs, has spent at $300,000 to bring back the death penalty.

California has two competing ballot initiatives regarding the death penalty. Proposition 62 would replace capital punishment with life in prison while Proposition 66 would expedite cases.

In Oklahoma, Question 776 would amend the state’s constitution to say, among other things, that any form of execution will be allowed except if prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.

Furthermore, the amendment would make it that a death sentence would not be reduced because a form of execution is considered invalid. This is relevant in Oklahoma since the botched execution of Clayton Lockett in 2015. Oklahoma’s executions have been placed on hold since then.

Arizona, Washington state, Colorado and Maine will all have initiatives to increase the minimum wage in their states.

Arizona’s initiative would establish the right to earn paid sick time as well as gradually raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020. Likewise, Washington’s plan would raise the minimum wage to $13.50 by 2020 and establish paid sick time.

Both Colorado and Maine’s initiatives would also raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020 and subsequently would be increased alongside the cost of living.

Conversely, in South Dakota, a ballot measure would reduce the minimum wage to $7.50 for people under the age of 18. In 2014, the state voted to increase the minimum wage to $8.50 with a cost of living increase.

While both Virginia and Alabama have so-called “right to work laws” that prevent employers from requiring union membership, both states are trying to enshrine the laws into their state constitutions.

Many states have already passed initiatives to conduct redistricting by commission. If passed, South Dakota’s would be the latest to take redistricting control away from the state legislature and give it to an independent commission.

South Dakota’s commission would consist of nine people selected from a 30-person pool. Ten members in the pool would belong to each party, with the final ten being unaffiliated with either party. Three people from each group would be selected to be on the commission.