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State voters also approved by wide margins the two state constitutional amendments that were put on the ballot by the state legislature for final approval. One amendment will mean the state's congressional districts will be redrawn for the 2002 election. The other will make jailed felons ineligible to vote. Neither amendment was particularly controversial, and no official opposition was organized on these two issues...
Closer to home, we are deeply disappointed by the voting results of Massachusetts ballot initiative Questions 2, 3, 4 and 8. Massachusetts residents voted to amend their state constitution and overturn a state supreme court precedent by denying incarcerated state residents their voting privileges. This decision has symbolic ramifications more than anything else; prisoners have never voted in especially strong numbers in Massachusetts and have never had any significant impact on election results, but they have now been stripped of a fundamental civil liberty...
...happy to report, however, that the residents of Massachusetts did vote down the one ballot initiative that had the most potential to detrimentally effect the social and economic condition of the state: Question 5. This particular proposal, which would have established a universal health care program in Massachusetts, had been described as a logistical nightmare by multiple independent researchers from institutes including Brandeis University and the Harvard School of Public Health. But even this particular proposal has been voted down, we hope that the state realizes that the opposition was in response to its economically unsound details rather than...
TIME.com: People sometimes jokingly compare Miami's local politics to the Third World, but when reports surface about lost ballot boxes turning up in nursery schools, that no longer seems so funny...
...Everyone expected a skintight vote here, but nobody expected it to be less than 2,000 votes. But we're still waiting for the overseas ballot count, and nobody's been able to give us a concrete figure on that. By the same token, one shouldn't assume, if there were irregularities, that they were necessarily perpetrated against one particular side. This state is perfectly capable of bipartisan irregularities. But it must be noted that at this point, neither of the parties is alleging any serious irregularities. The only substantial complaint has been about the Palm Beach ballot...