Word: balloters
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...about four days, the most powerful armed factions in Iraq were girding for war. Fighting tribesmen from Anbar province were openly threatening violence against political rivals they accused of trying to steal the provincial elections by stuffing ballot boxes in the Jan. 31 vote. Iraqi security forces in Anbar braced for trouble, at one point imposing a curfew, an increasingly rare move these days. U.S. forces in the province watched the situation warily, wondering whether the relative calm Iraq has known for roughly the last year would unravel in a matter of days or even hours. "The levels of violence...
...California Prop 8 Court Date Same-sex-marriage advocates rejoiced Feb. 2 after the California Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the Nov. 4 ballot measure that reversed the court's previous decision to grant gay and lesbian couples the right to wed; a record $83 million was raised by groups on both sides in the run-up to the vote. The March 5 hearing will also address the validity of 18,000 same-sex marriages that occurred before Prop 8 was passed...
...Predictions are difficult," said Khalid Oglah, the chief election official overseeing polling station No. 65. "The ballot boxes will reveal who is the winner...
Steele won the race for the RNC's chairmanship on the fifth ballot by a vote of 91 to 77 against Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, who was hobbled by his previous membership in an all-white country club. At one point, one of Steele's rivals was Ken Blackwell, an African American and a former Ohio secretary of state, who was widely viewed as too dogmatically conservative to head a party desperate for moderation and who eventually threw his support behind Steele. The original slate of candidates included Tennessee GOP chairman Chip Saltsman...
...course, wasn't a ballot option (it was either Yes or No on various categories). But Sunday's vote was considered just as much a referendum on the President as it was on the text. Government officials therefore interpret the 20-plus point victory as a solid win. Opposition leaders say that the document's rejection in the eastern part of the country means that there must be some move toward compromise...