Word: balloting
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Committees will meet to frame possible questions and compile fact sheets expressing pros and cons of each issue they want to appear on the ballot before the assembly convenes November...
Homosexuals won key ballot victories in two Western states. Californians followed the advice of civil liberties groups and conservatives and rejected Proposition 6, which would have enabled local school boards to fire teachers who are gay or who advocate homosexuality. Said Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley: "It was a measure against not just the rights of gay teachers but the civil rights of us all." In Seattle, voters retained a law that bars landlords and employers from discriminating against homosexuals. But in Florida, Miami-area voters refused to endorse a gay rights bill...
...churches ... the men who own and till their own farms ...the men who went to war ... and saved the nation's honor ... by the natural law of their being find their place in the Republican Party. While the old slave owner and slave driver, the saloon keeper, the ballot box stuffer ...the criminal class of the great cities, the men who cannot read or write, by the natural law of their being find their congenial place in the Democratic Party...
Voting returns from Alabama, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, and Michigan showed residents of this states favoring tax cut proposals modeled after California's Proposition 13 by margins of approximately two-to-one. In Arkansas a similar ballot issue was trailing early this morning...
Question One reached the Massachusetts ballot because of the State Supreme Court's 1974 decision in the Subdury case, which called for property tax assessment at 100 percent of its market value. The victory of Question One means that property will be taxed at different rates for different uses: residential, commercial, industrial or open space...