Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While 10,000 registered voters' signatures can secure ballot status for the most bumbling of Republican gubernatorial candidates, the Massachusetts Election Commission required her to collect 40,000 as a third-party candidate. She failed to do so, and was disqualified...
...proposal that could quarantine AIDS victims, sponsored by followers of Lyndon LaRouche, has gathered nearly 700,000 signatures to win a spot on the ballot in a California referendum this fall. -- Despite a voter referendum in Maine last month in which citizens soundly rejected an antipornography measure, large-scale efforts to restrict the sale of sexually explicit material are under way in more than a dozen states from Massachusetts to Arizona...
...long in coming. By 2 p.m. on voting day, Colude, a nonpartisan civic group that monitored the election, reported that P.A.N. poll watchers had been thrown out of 33 polling stations and supplanted by impostors who beat them to the job in 21 others. Observers also said that ballot boxes had been stuffed with P.R.I. votes in 54 districts and stolen in four others. Hardly had the polls closed when the ruling party announced a sweeping victory in all but one of 67 contested municipalities. "What can you say?" said one Reagan Administration official of the blatant fraud...
...federal civil rights. Snapped a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The decision is nothing more than a pretext for discrimination." And in California, an initiative that could prohibit AIDS victims from attending or teaching school and working in restaurants was certified for placement on the November ballot. The measure was put forward by followers of the perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche...
Switzler, a legislator from Wellesley, made the surprise announcement as he and many other candidates for office filed the necessary signatures to qualify for the fall ballot...