Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they have discovered common ground in tort reform, and are working hard for three initiatives that have already qualified for California's March primary ballot. Proposition 200 would establish a "no-fault" auto-insurance system in which insurers pay benefits regardless of who causes an accident. Proposition 201 would discourage shareholder lawsuits by requiring unsuccessful litigants to pay the corporation's legal fees. And Proposition 202 would sharply limit lawyers' contingency fees in personal-injury cases that are settled within 60 days. The initiatives will be voted on separately, but their backers, in order to create a wider base...
...Hampshire secretary of state, welcomes each presidential candidate who walks into his high-ceilinged State House office. And between the fourth and the 15th of December, a gallimaufry of folks do just that. For during those two weeks, anyone with $1,000 and the nerve can get on the ballot in the nation's first primary...
...stay home with their children. "The little guy who doesn't have a lot of money can still come here and start up a campaign," he says. "We give the same courtesy to the Hemp Lady as to Bob Dole." Four years ago, 62 people were on the ballot, a New Hampshire record, but this year they are already well ahead of 1992's pace...
David J. Andorsky '97 was elected chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel last night on the first ballot, while chair-candidate Leah J. Solomon '97 was elected associate chair...
Members of the working committee also agree that candidates should present petitions of 100 signatures in order to be placed on the ballot...