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...after news outlets called the state’s 20 electoral votes for President Bush. But both before and after the election, multiple Ohio newspapers reported on a string of voting irregularities, including serious concerns about how thousands of votes were counted. Many of these worries stem from the balloting machinery in Ohio: while only about 12 percent of the nation votes by punch card, the infamous ballot system that muddled the 2000 presidential election in Florida, about three-quarters of Ohio residents do. And of the 88 counties in the state, only one switched from punch cards...
...outside pressure, not inside deals," says Republican Congressman Dana Rohrbacher. When Democrats in the legislature balked at passing a $15 billion bond measure that Schwarzenegger put forward in November 2003 to prevent the state from going bankrupt, he appealed directly to the people in a special ballot last March. The bond measure passed easily. The Governor's spokesman, Rob Stutzman, is unapologetic about the end run. "The legislature is inherently not popular, the Governor is inherently popular, and we've shown we know how to use that, and will probably use it again," he says...
...Schwarzenegger resolved California's core problem: the state habitually pays out more than it takes in, and what it takes in is restricted by Proposition 13, a 1978 ballot measure that tightly limits property taxes. Despite hopes that Schwarzenegger would take on Prop. 13, senior aide Murphy says the Governor "doesn't believe in changing" it. Some $15 billion in bonds tided the state over for this year, but by early January, Schwarzenegger's administration must come up with a budget to plug what nonpartisan state legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill estimates will be a $6.7 billion deficit...
...cannot finance socially liberal programs with fiscally conservative policies. The math just doesn't work." Conservatives like McClintock think Schwarzenegger caved in too easily to Democratic opposition to a $1 billion cut in health and social services last year. They also disapproved of the Governor's support for a ballot initiative, passed handily in November, that provided $3 billion in state funds for stem-cell research over the next 10 years. Supporters argue that in the long term the state stands to gain from the potential discoveries, but meanwhile the measure adds to California's indebtedness...
...going to win at the ballot box until we start winning at the water cooler and in the church pews...