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Tolman’s advertising is in large part financed by Massachusetts taxpayers, as the first gubernatorial candidate to take advantage of the “Clean Elections” law—a successful 1998 campaign finance ballot initiative...
...collect the locals' votes. It's a comic chore for all concerned. One old fellow wonders why his favorite candidate, God, isn't listed. There are no hanging-chad jokes, but the film's spare wit is as applicable to Broward County as to the Persian Gulf. Secret Ballot offers further evidence that an Islamic regime can foster humanist satires with a critical, political edge...
...appear to be simply a matter of nuance, but for those who live in Euskadi (as the territory is called in the Basque language), nuance may make all the difference. The mainstream Basque politicians want to defeat ETA and Batasuna by political means, continuing to isolate them at the ballot box - and they fear that forcing them out of the political process amid a climate of hostility to Basque nationalism may win new sympathy among Basques for the extremists...
...conspiracy charges filed in Manhattan federal court. It seems that Tokhtahkounov, who denies any wrongdoing, may have been at the heart of the scheme to award figure skating gold to the Russian pair, rather than the Canadians, employing French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne to cast the deciding ballot. A day after the pairs medals were awarded, Le Gougne admitted to buckling under pressure to vote for the Russian pair in exchange for first-place votes for the French ice dancing team. Although she later rescinded her confession, she has been suspended from judging...
...course, even when voters decide on a proposal, that doesn't mean the government doesn't have a role. Elected officials have to execute what the voters enact, and in some instances the voters' message is unclear: in recent years voters in Colorado passed a ballot initiative forcing the state government to adequately fund education, but they also passed a proposal restricting the state's ability to raise taxes. So the state had to increase school funding but wasn't allowed to raise money to pay for it, and the government tied itself into a fiscal straitjacket...