Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolutionary proposition was placed on the ballot by the largest avalanche of petition signatures (1.5 million) in California's initiative-studded history. It has totally dominated the state's primary-election season. Voters seem to be judging the candidates on only one issue: Where do they stand...
...decision will also affect laws prohibiting or limiting corporate spending on ballot issues in perhaps as many as 17 states besides Massachusetts...
...opposition, however, charged that ballot-box rigging rather than hard campaigning was responsible for the Marcos sweep. Laban poll watchers had been harassed in many cases on voting day itself; in monitoring a suspiciously slow canvass of the returns, which at week's end was less than half finished, Laban claimed such irregularities as completely fictitious tally sheets. Even many people who were not Laban activists were disturbed. One group of 17 Jesuit priests petitioned the Philippine Conference of Catholic Bishops to conduct an investigation, saying there were mounting indications that a "deliberate, systematic and therefore widespread dishonesty...
...have some kind of law barring smoking in public places. Emboldened by HEW Secretary Joseph Califano's celebrated campaign against the weed, the antismoking lobby is now pushing for further restrictions. In California, a broad initiative proposed by the Clean Indoor Air Committee will be on the ballot this fall. One of its aims is to prohibit smoking in all work places except private offices...
...Currier House committee will go door-to-door with a ballot box to ensure that all students vote, delegates said...