Word: balloters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Many critics who are outraged by Warren's role in the Inauguration have unfairly painted him as a leader in last fall's campaign for Proposition 8, the controversial California ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage. It's not as if Warren cut commercials for Prop. 8 or traveled the state urging its passage. But neither was he the silent bystander that some of his defenders have claimed. Less than a month before the election, Warren e-mailed a statement to his 30,000 members declaring, "There is no doubt where we should stand on this issue," and urged...
...world's worst gaps between rich and poor. Democratic elections are of course a good thing. But "if we want to win the hearts and minds of people in Caracas, Jakarta, Nairobi or Tehran," Obama wrote in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, "dispersing ballot boxes will not be enough. We'll have to make sure that the international rules we're promising enhance, rather than impede, people's sense of material and personal security...
There are a lot of trends going on that should be scaring the daylights out of the Republicans. Democrats are on the upswing in their control of Congress, in state legislative seats, in rural areas. It's all the way up and down the ballot...
...voting rights. He notably argued Reynolds v. Sims, a landmark Supreme Court case that ended the rural South's dominance in state politics, and his office challenged the exclusion of blacks from juries and represented black death-row inmates convicted by all-white panels. "The jury box and the ballot box," he said, "are the only places where citizens can tell their government what to do and the government has to listen...
...similarly small margin, there would have been no possible hand recount. Georgia’s electronic voting machines are paperless—electronic machines typically don’t allow for a hand recount to double check the electronic tally. In contrast, every Minnesota voter marked a paper ballot. This allowed officials to go back and at least try to discern for whom each person voted...