Editing Voting (section)

=== Referendums ===
When the citizens of a country are invited to vote, they are participating in an election. However, people can also vote in [[referendum]]s and [[Popular initiative|initiative]]s. Since the end of the eighteenth century, more than five hundred national referendums (including initiatives) were organized in the world; among them, more than three hundred were held in [[Voting in Switzerland|Switzerland]].<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Bruno S. Frey et Claudia Frey Marti, ''Le bonheur. L'approche économique'', [[Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires romandes]], 2013 ({{ISBN|978-2-88915-010-6}}).</ref> Australia ranked second with dozens of referendums.

Most referendums are binary. The first multi-option referendum was held in New Zealand in 1894, and most of them are conducted under a two-round system. New Zealand had a five-option referendum in 1992, while Guam had a six-option plebiscite in 1982, which also offered a blank option, in case some voters wanted to (campaign and) vote for a seventh option.