Word: balloting
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...sure thing. But the fact that he's trying shows that suburban overgrowth has become a national headache. Instead of just fleeing the sprawl (and thus creating more of it), people are groping for ways to fight it. Last November there were no fewer than 240 antisprawl ballot initiatives around the country. Most of them passed. Some stripped local authorities of the power to approve new subdivisions without voter assent. Others okayed tax money to buy open land before the developers get it. In the largest of those, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman successfully pushed a referendum...
...paper-ballot elections will occur Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week...
...Republicans have exposed their contempt for the American people. This nasty scandal won't really come to a close until each and every Republican who mounted this six-year war on Bill Clinton has been removed from office--not by sham investigations and phony inquiries but by the ballot box. That's why some friends and I are forming a political action committee to target the right-wingers who didn't listen to the people of their districts during impeachment. We're going to mount a vigorous attack. We'll give money and support to candidates who oppose these smear...
...been a confusing few weeks for those hoping to enjoy their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of guns and fashion. In Beverly Hills, Calif., an initiative approved for the May ballot calls for tags on new fur coats warning consumers that the animals used were possibly killed by "electrocution, gassing, neck breaking" or other means. A Lincoln Park, Mich., student is suing her high school, saying a dress code that forbids her to wear a pentagram violates her ability to practice her religion of witchery. Not far away, in Traverse City, Mich., a judge ruled that...
...other contenders, Republican Philip Hyde, who lost to Capuano in this fall's Congressional election, and 21-year-old political neophyte Matthew Hoey, who attended Somerville High School but did not matriculate, entered the fray relatively late. Somerville pundits discount their chances for success at the ballot...