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...never thought I would be disenfranchised." JOSE CUISIA jr, former Central Bank of Philippines governor and a director of Namfrel, an election-monitoring group, who wasn't able to cast his ballot in last week's presidential election, which was marred by charges of cheating and a slow vote count, because his name was missing from a list of registered voters...
...Jersey Governor James McGreevey, in a nod to the state's pharmaceutical industry, will inaugurate a $50 million stem-cell institute to be funded with state and private money. In California, activists last month submitted 1.1 million signatures--nearly twice as many as necessary--to launch a November ballot measure that would underwrite stem-cell research with $3 billion in state bonds over 10 years. The California funds would dwarf federal grants, which have stalled at about $17 million a year for human embryonic research since Bush restricted funding to a few dozen pre-existing stem-cell lines. Only...
...this context that Thorpe and B.R.O.'s informal group of legal advisers began pondering how to approach the marriage issue. What about a ballot measure? Too expensive; too risky. Legislation? Impossible with a Senate split 15 to 15. So why not do what they did in Massachusetts: sue the state and let the case work its way up? "We felt that was too time consuming [and] might bring on a backlash without us having actually gained something," says Thorpe. "We knew that anything that happened would end up in court at some point." With that outcome in mind, Thorpe says...
Though members of the election commission acknowledged the removal of the ballot in favor of Raynor, they maintained that it was removed for legitimate reasons...
...wrote that the original vote count for the presidential election was not 63-63, but 64-63 in favor of Raynor and he criticized the removal of the “questionable” ballot...