Word: balloting
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Stirred up by President and Mrs. Reagan, antidrug sentiment in America is running at its highest level in a generation. How high will be tested in Oregon in November, when voters will decide on Ballot Measure 5: Should marijuana be legalized for personal use? The Oregon Marijuana Initiative has spent about $50,000 promoting the proposition and helping collect the 87,000 signatures necessary to place it on the ballot. John Sajo, 30, the group's director, admits, "We're fighting the general drug hysteria," but hopes Oregon's voters will approve the measure, which would allow consumption...
...images and events during the elections and the revolution are deeply etched in the memory of our people and give inspiration to the other nations of the world: men and women linked arm to arm guarding the ballot boxes; computer technicians hired by the government to do the official count walking out of the fraudulent tabulation; tens of thousands of men and women, with their children about them, in vigil, half in fear, half in joy, guarding with their bodies the small detachment of rebel soldiers; nuns kneeling in the path of oncoming tanks; a nation rising...
State Rep. Royall Switzler (R-Wellesley) was nominated by a close second ballot at the April convention. He was later found to have falsified his Vietnam war record, and withdrew from the race. The current bearer of the party's endorsement, George Kariotis, owns a corporation which has been fined by the Environmental Protection Agency, but is relatively unscathed...
...week, merely because of their connection with AIDS patients. "Here in Chicago, AIDS is still seen as a gay issue," one group member said. "I see a lot of hysteria." In California, a group calling itself PANIC (Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee) has placed a proposition on the November ballot giving health officials the right to quarantine all AIDS patients and carriers of the virus. Though unlikely to pass, it has stirred the most voter emotion...
...voting rights, the report recalled Rehnquist's role in a Republican ballot security program in Phoenix in the mid-1960s. Witnesses told the Senate Rehnquist harassed minority Democratic voters, although other witnesses said...