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Candidates had sent out written campaign statements before the elections, and there was a question and answer period before the members voted by secret ballot...
Despite the restricted campaigning dates, he also said that all candidates must submit petitions with 100 signatures by the Friday before Thanksgiving in order to be included on the ballot...
...Republican victories in the 2002 election were widespread and, in some places, outright shocking. In Massachusetts, 45 percent of voters supported a ballot question that would eliminate the state income tax, cutting $40 billion from the state budget. In Georgia, Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, a widely respected Vietnam veteran, was defeated on the issue of homeland security. In countless other close races—for the senate in Minnesota and Missouri, for the governor’s office in California—Democrats fared very poorly, and in several cases lost contests that were eminently winnable...
...Compulsive gamblers in North Dakota Voters overwhelmingly approved plans to launch a state lottery, in one of the 202 ballot propositions up for consideration in 40 states...
...losing, McBride may have scored one victory over Jeb. After conceding the election , he insisted that his education-centric campaign had at least "moved [Florida's] agenda to the right place" - and he seemed to be borne out as a ballot initiative mandating limits on Florida school class sizes, a measure Jeb opposed as too expensive, seemed headed toward a narrow victory...