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...base more quickly than a revived clarion call about the threat of moral decay embodied by same-sex marriages. And the base has been galvanized. In 2004, 13 states amended their constitutions to exclude gays from marrying. At least seven more will put anti-gay marriage measures on the ballot this November...
KINKY FRIEDMAN, independent candidate for Texas Governor, after a rival, thrice-married Carole Keeton Strayhorn, amassed at least 50,000 more signatures than he did to get on the November ballot...
...prevent demonstrators from expressing their support for two pro-reform judges who were scheduled to appear in front of a disciplinary hearing that morning. The judges, Mahmoud Mekky and Hesham El Bastawissi, face possible expulsion from the bench after calling for the independence of Egypt's judiciary and protesting ballot fraud during last year's parliamentary elections. Their case is fast becoming a cause celebre in Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak, 78, is facing growing domestic and international pressure to democratize...
...charitable undertaking was a wholly unsexy attempt to correct this—a ballot initiative to change the way trustees were selected, from at-large to single-member district elections, so that trustees might be spread more evenly across town...
...Over six months, I spoke at dozens of small meetings in the city, convinced many that the change was a good thing, and with the help of 50 hard-recruited volunteers collected over 3,000 signatures in a single day so the issue could be forced to a ballot...