Word: balloting
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...vote on the referendum sends a "message to our elected officials that their policies are really not in line with what the voters believe in," said Kathryn Silver, coordinator of the Coalition for Palestinian Rights, the group that sponsored Question 5's appearance on the ballot. Congress' funds belong to the taxpayers, Silver said, and actions against Palestinians are "an improper use of those funds...
Jenny M. Walser '90 of Kirkland House said she registered to vote in Cambridge for two reasons. "I thought it would be embarrassing for Dukakis to lose his home state, so I registered here. Also, it's more convenient to vote here than to get an absentee ballot," she said...
Democrats expressed confidence they would command majorities in the 101st Congress that will govern alongside the new president. They also angled for modest gains in the dozen statehouse races on today's ballot...
Opponents of Question 2 on the statewide ballot question the accuracy of a Boston Globe poll published Sunday that said 49 percent of Massachusetts residents want to repeal the prevailing wage...
That question will not be on any ballot, but it is perhaps the most unambiguous decision facing voters. Dukakis is the apostle of the do-something ethic, while Bush represents mainstream Republican skepticism of new Government programs. That choice undergirds the election, but never have the terms of philosophic battle been defined for the voters. This vagueness provides protective camouflage for Bush, who has artfully used evocative phrases like "a kinder, gentler nation" to mask the passivity of his domestic agenda. He has, to be sure, advanced his own proposals on education and day care, but they do not seem...