Word: ballot
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...with a crucial decision. Lobbyists and enthusiasts from across the country have vehemently campaigned for each side. Political organizations, interest groups, Harvard professors, and billionaires have all been drawn into the fight. The all-important issue: What should our state do about weed? One of the measures on the ballot, Massachusetts Ballot Question 2, would partially decriminalize marijuana use by reducing criminal penalties on possession to a fine of $100. It would also stop collecting Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) reports on such crimes. We applaud the idea of reducing these restrictions, and recommend that the state and federal government...
...tell people when they ask me who am I going to vote for, I say that's why they put those curtains around the ballot box in there...
...school photo ID, Social Security card and driver's license from Illinois, where she grew up. But under a 2005 Indiana law - upheld last April in a Supreme Court decision that has rankled voter advocates more than any other case since Bush v. Gore - Meentz was refused a ballot because she did not have an in-state ID. And without so much as an explanation of her options, like a provisional or absentee ballot, poll workers sent her home. "That would have been the first time that I would have voted," says Meentz. "I'm still upset about...
...mail, a problem that disproportionately affects college students. If the election office can’t contact the voter issuing a “flagged” application, he is either not added to the rolls (in states like Florida and Iowa) or has to vote by provisional ballot. That’s assuming that the flagged form is even processed before Election Day. When you add a college student’s need to vote absentee, the procedure gets even murkier...
...when we approached another house on the list and found a father and son raking the front yard. "I'm voting for McCain," the father told us. But his 19-year-old son, a college student home for the weekend, told us he plans to send in his absentee ballot for Obama. His reason? "Palin's a retard," he said. As for the lady of the house? McCain, the man said. "She has to live here. The kids I can kick...