Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What about the second ballot, he asked. She might be available. The Cheshire cat came back into Bond's smile. But, only if Shirley gave the word, she said. Of course, Julian replied. They could talk about it later ... sometime when her husband wasn't around to give her moral support. Gliding back towards the bar for a refill. Bond walked away knowing she knew she had just been wooed by the best, and he accepted the compliment. However, he also knew that she was not going to vote for George McGovern, because, among other things there wasn't going...
Rather than go to that extreme, the states are trying to draw up new land-use policies. Except in Oregon, which already has a coastal-conservation agency, the people will have their say this November at the ballot box. In California, voters will consider Proposition 20, an initiative to establish statewide rules governing all coastal-land uses. If passed, the initiative directs one state and six regional planning commissions to supplant the chaos of some 200 local agencies that now watch over shoreline development. In Washington, the voters will decide whether they should give controls to the state ecology board...
...name, neglecting only to tell the commissioners' chairman, Stanley T. Kusper Jr., that he was a Trib employee. He went to work last April and soon satisfied his suspicious Democratic co-workers that he was on the level. Finally he got access to the office vault and old ballot applications (the slips signed by voters just before entering the booth). Mullen found an apparent forgery almost immediately, one so obvious that "it almost knocked me off my chair." It was only the first of many...
Then he and the Bliss crew spent another month in Chicago's working-class and slum wards, laboriously checking out names and addresses. They reported finding more than 1,000 cases of election-law violations, mostly forgery: people whose "signatures" appeared on ballot applications but who had not voted. There were also instances of phony addresses (one "residence" proved to be a police station, another the middle of a busy intersection). Some "voters" had died or moved away long before the primary. These and other irregularities were found in 22 of Chicago's 50 wards...
...month after the ouster Citizens for Frisoli" collected over 6000 signatures on petitions calling for a referendum on the superintendent question However the liberal CCA majority on the City Council refused to place the question on the ballot. The pro-Frisoli faction crowded the galleries and shouted epithets such as "Power to the People" while the City Council debated the matter. Both Middlesex Superior Court and the Supreme Judicial Court upheld the council's decision, ruling that Frisoli's removal was a administrative rather than a legislative action and therefore not subject to referendum...