Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state constitution requires that a summary of ballot questions be printed on the slates inside voting booths...
...team of lawyers will decide this week whether to challenge the outcome of last Tuesday's vote on the state ballot questions, following reports of irregularities in the presentation of the nine initiatives...
...Boston Herald reported Monday that voters in some precincts were not given summaries of the ballot questions prepared by the state attorney general--the only summaries that can legally be provided--and that other voters were given illegal summaries...
...John McDonough, co-chair of the state House of Representatives' Committee on Election Laws, told The Boston Globe Tuesday that "mass confusion" resulted from voter ignorance of the ballot questions...
Gubernatorial races in Maryland and Alaska that had been hung up on absentee ballot counts arelikely Democratic victories. In Maryland, where the GOP is outnumbered two-to-one, Democrat Parris Glendening apparently beat Republican Ellen Sauerbrey by 5,405 votes with all but about 500 overseas votes tallied. (His lieutenant governor will be Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the late Robert Kennedy's oldest daughter.) In Alaska, Democrat Tony Knowles led Republican Jim Campbell by just 77 votes -- an edge so thin state officials may demand a recount. But 1994's Squeaker of the Year may go to a Connecticut House race...