Word: ballot
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Predictably, such legal developments have encouraged a backlash. One of the most volatile battles is now raging in California. The state's stringent confidentiality law is being challenged by a proposition on the November ballot. It would require that public-health officials be informed of all positive AIDS tests and that all sexual partners of those who test positive be traced and alerted. The measure's chief proponent, Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer, says he wants to correct the state's "absurd policy" of turning a "public-health issue into a civil rights issue." But Benjamin Schatz, a lawyer with National...
...political parties may take to the streets ) if the scheduled elections are not held. Benazir Bhutto said from her Karachi home that she was satisfied the new government was following the constitution by allowing the Nov. 16 elections to proceed. Some analysts have speculated that Zia deliberately scheduled the ballot for November to thwart Bhutto's political ambitions; she is due to give birth to her first child in December. In any event, a return to the tumultuous party politics of her father's day is for the moment proscribed by Zia's ban on party endorsements for candidates. Bhutto...
California consumer groups have placed on the November ballot a referendum to cut insurance costs and reform the industry. Insurance companies are retaliating with three initiatives designed to reduce their payouts. As advocates of the rival measures trade barbs and hustle votes, they are spending plenty -- $60 million, $40 million of which will come from the insurance industry. It is by far the most expensive state election contest ever waged, costing close to two-thirds of the $100 million that the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns are expected to spend this year...
...voters would be ashamed to cast their ballot for someone running on a platform of competence. That's not what presidential elections are about--they're about what Bush once called "that vision thing." Vision as in "it's morning in America," as in the New Frontier, the New Deal, the Great Society...
...everyone welcomed Bermudez into the rebels' top political ranks. One Assembly delegate, in voting against Bermudez, scrawled "No military dictatorships" across his ballot. Seven regional commanders of the contras' southern front, which operates near the border with Costa Rica, announced they were pulling out of the Resistance. In a bitterly worded communique, they said, "The struggle against the Managua dictatorship is ill served by placing in the highest military command of the insurgency an ex-colonel of the hated Somocista National Guard...