Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here too the Soviets have taken some tentative first steps. Late last month, for the first time since the early days of Soviet power, voters in 5% of the country's roughly 52,000 districts were allowed to choose from party-appointed electoral lists with more candidates on the ballot than positions to be filled. The Supreme Soviet, the country's nominal parliament, voted to permit popular referendums on regional political and social issues and to allow citizens the right of judicial appeal against certain decisions by Communist Party officials...
AILING. Paul Gann, 75, conservative tax crusader who in 1978 co-sponsored (with Howard Jarvis) California's property-tax-cutting Proposition 13 and in later years led ballot fights to limit state and local spending; with acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome, contracted from blood transfusions he received during open-heart surgery in 1982; in Carmichael, Calif...
...landholders have such powerful control that they dictate policy for the entire county. They got rich by developing the land, but now they don't want to pay for all the services we need." Burkett has formed a group, Orange County Tomorrow, that plans to initiate a ballot proposal to stop growth in areas where traffic does not move freely...
...Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) committee nominates the official slate of overseers every year. The overseers, who serve for five year terms, are elected by alumni ballot...
...fact, the policy of property divestment drew such vociferous criticism from Cambridge residents that local politicians turned the issue into a referendum question on the 1985 municipal ballot. And 50 percent of the city's electorate told Harvard to stop...