So basically to you have two systems because your government is in a spat with the political parties. nice.
Not the government. Elected officials are squarely on the side of the parties (that’s who they are). Ballot initiatives bypass the legislature and the governor here. This one was written, I believe, by the state Grange. So it’d be pretty fairly described as a spat between the state parties and the state population.
state Grange?