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...voters in Hawaii get to decide--once and for all, they hope--whether to confer these rewards. The occasion is a constitutional amendment on the ballot, one that, if approved, would empower the state legislature to amend the constitution to ban same-sex marriages. In the most recent public poll in the Honolulu Advertiser, in September, the amendment led 52% to 40%. Still, the side that supports gay marriage has more money in the bank, and everyone expects that the campaign will end in a close vote...
...Reiner, the onetime regular on All in the Family and now a renowned movie director. But the speech, before the American Heart Association, is only tangentially about Reiner's childhood. More directly, he is imploring his listeners to help get out the vote for Proposition 10, a California ballot initiative that would tax tobacco to fund programs for preschoolers. "Politicians like to say children are the future," Reiner says, "but what have they done for them? Everyone knows that the first three years of life is when the brain develops. We must give every child a good start...
Yesterday, the MSA collected signatures against Proposition 209--the ballot measure that eradicated affirmative action in the University of California school system last year...
...voter turnout occurred because people seem to think that the council is a living joke, that it doesn't have a particular influence in their lives," said Jeffrey E. Zinsmeister '00, a Winthrop resident. Zinsmeister, who dropped out of the race too late to remove his name from the ballot and won the uncontested election, said he plans to resign from the council immediately...
...when we get inside a polling booth or fill out an absentee ballot, that vital democratic link is still there--the link that puts power in our hands and roots the legitimacy of the elected in the populace. My absentee vote for Bill Clinton was probably never even counted in 1996. But when I see or hear or read about him, I think of the Clinton Presidency as an institution I helped create...