Word: balloting
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...transcript will keep him out of Harvard. But the situation could get even worse. A constitutional amendment has been drafted guaranteeing that parents' rights to direct the education of their children "shall not be infringed." The amendment, being pushed by the Christian right, is on the November ballot in Colorado, and has been proposed in 28 other states. If it ever becomes law, we will have school by daily plebiscite with creationists and evolutionists, liberals and conservatives, condom givers and abstinence advocates, prayer sayers and secularists playing out their agendas. If parents aren't willing to go in the other...
...making plans to form a national government, formed of all political forces in the country. Ortega is not conceding defeat, while Sandinista campaign chairman Alvaro Fiallos said that it was premature for Aleman to claim victory. The elections themselves were a morass of inefficient bureaucracy, hampered by delays in ballot delivery, tardy officials and power outages. Lines formed before dawn on Sunday, and many voters resolutely waited for two or three hours to cast their ballots. In spite of the hitches, outgoing President Violeta Chamorro called the election a "beautiful process." "This is what I want, that we may continue...
That explains how former Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter stunned the Establishment by gathering 58,000 signatures in favor of a total ban on clear-cutting--enough to place the issue on the Nov. 5 ballot as a referendum. Voters will decide if they want to halt the practice outright, reduce it or do nothing...
MAINE CLEAR-CUTTING BECOMES A BALLOT ISSUE IN THE PINE TREE STATE...
Meanwhile, however, the initiative's backers were having trouble gathering enough petitions to get it on the ballot; California initiatives have become a business, and no initiative since Prop. 13 has succeeded without the help of an expensive signature-gathering firm. Republican powers in Sacramento and Washington came in at the last minute with the money to hire professionals and save the initiative. Their motive was practical: the initiative looked as if it might be popular enough to pull Republican candidates (including the presidential one) to victory...