Word: balloting
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...split liberal organizations that usually cooperate. Despite an information booklet mailed to every registered voter by the Secretary of State's office, voters are apparently ill-informed: according to a Boston Globe poll released Sunday, only 42 percent of the voters had any idea which questions were on the ballot...
While Catholic leaders support the first two measures, the Massachusetts Council of Churches, a Protestant organization, opposes both, and has begun a campaign with the slogan "no, no, no in November," referring to the first three ballot questions...
Question 4 was brought to the ballot by a coalition of liberal groups, but there the spirit of cooperation seems to have ended...
...Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG), which collected many of the voters' signatures that got the question on the ballot, charges that the League has been influenced by the Dow Chemical Corporation's contributions toward its Household Hazardous Waste program, which helps individual citizens get rid of dangerous chemicals...
...showing made Demirel a serious rival for Prime Minister Turgut Ozal, whose free-market Motherland Party won six seats and 32% of the popular vote; both figures were disappointingly below Ozal's expectations. Demirel may now push for general elections prior to the ballot scheduled...