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...stockholders interview all student applicants and decide which 11 will appear on the ballot distributed to Coop members next March. Students also may bypass the stockholders and get on the ballot by securing the signatures of 100 Coop members...
...Farm workers in California are protected under a comprehensive state law allowing them to select through secret ballot which union, if any, they want to represent them. Time and again, California farm workers have rejected the UFW as their representative and have selected other unions to represent them...
...haven't heard complaints from those bringing in the results," said Molnar. However, Molnar did say the new ballots confused some, despite demonstrations of the new ballot procedure at all polling precincts...
...great thing about ballot initiatives is they offer the citizenry no scapegoat other than itself. When the elephants have to leave the Cincinnati zoo ? famous for its endangered species ? angry residents might remember they just nixed a $52 million levy for a new elephant house. When sports fans in Pittsburgh bemoan the lack of facilities for the Steelers and the Pirates, it may spark the memory of their own votes against new stadiums for the teams...
...course, the ballot initiative is also home to the ugliest part of democracy ? the wedge issue. There will be no gun locks for children, marijuana for cancer patients or gay rights for workers in Washington State, all because the majority ? who wouldn't have to pay an extra cent ? didn't judge any of these proposals morally correct...