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Facing Massachusetts voters in November is a ballot initiative seeking to drastically curtail bilingual education in the Commonwealth. Question 2 was proposed by Ron Unz, a California millionaire who has pursued a personal crusade against bilingual education across the country. Unz has already succeeded in persuading voters in Arizona and California to abolish bilingual programs, but he faces more opposition in Massachusetts, which has the oldest bilingual education law in the country...
...long impasse can't continue. "We don't have anAladdin's lamp," she told Time, "but we will provide a healing touch." Her fervor registered with Kashmir's voters, as even Omar Abdullah admits. "We may have lost," he says, "but the democracy has won." As Kashmiris proved, the ballot can sometimes defeat bullies and bullets...
...national referendum set for next year. Amid the din, one of the delegates turns to her and speaks softly. "If we held an open vote in this room about joining the E.U., 100% would vote no," the man says. "But if you did a secret ballot, 90% would say yes." Why? In public, the farmers don't want to be seen capitulating to sinister forces from Brussels who are thought to be paving the way for a German conquest-by-checkbook. But privately, they have already calculated how much their E.U. subsidies will be worth. Having renounced Karl Marx...
...Election Commission’s Monteiro said that certification was delayed because of a ballot confusion...
...candidate whose name was not on our list of candidates unintentionally appeared on the ballot,” he said, though he declined to name the candidate...