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...after the winner has been determined, we can go back to our regular lives. Charles K. Stein Coram, New York, U.S. I am the sole Democrat where I work. All of us are devoutly Christian and love one another. As Oregonians, we were able to cast our mail-in ballots before Election Day, and since then my friends and I have quietly sought to heal the wounds inflicted by this heated campaign. We've asked one another probing questions and listened with respect and good humor to the answers. I try to avoid eye rolling, although I cannot...
Perhaps worse than any sleight of hand in the wording of the ballot questions is the fact that the issue seems part of an orchestrated Republican ploy to summon evangelical voters to the polls in greater numbers in swing states such as Arkansas, Michigan, Ohio and Oregon. It appears that these “values” voters may well have handed George W. Bush the election, but at a cost that transcends a single political victory. The constitutions of 11 states now bear the writ of discrimination, formalized in parchment, despite the fact that gay marriage was unlikely...
...defines civil marriage. We do not, however, respect the efforts of politicians to dirty this issue—one that affects the life and liberty of millions of Americans on a fundamental level—by playing to prejudices and potentially misleading the voter with ulterior electoral motives. The ballot questions in each state varied naturally, but in a majority of these states the wording was ambiguous enough to include the banning of rights imparted to same-sex couples in civil unions in addition to marriage. This in effect placed two questions before the voter in a single question, something...
Nichols, vice chair of the council’s Finance Committee, said he is considering running for president in order to offer students more choice on the ballot...
Trial lawyers, gays and bears all had something extra at stake in this week's election returns, as voters in 34 states decided 163 ballot measures. Some--like proposed constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage--helped woo a party's base to the polls. Other ballot measures--like laws against baiting bears--forced voters to tackle local issues too grisly for legislators to handle on their own. --By Rebecca Winters...