Word: ballots
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Rather than signing up on lists posted on dorm bulletin boards, those girls interested in participating in the project will place their names in the dormitory ballot...
...ILLINOIS. Because of failure to redistrict, all 177 house seats were up for grabs in an at-large election. With 118 candidates of each party listed side by side on a bath-towel-sized ballot, most voters predictably took the easy way out, voted a straight ticket and elected all 118 Democrats, a two-thirds majority of the house. The senate, though, still has a Republican majority...
...California ballot was a proposition that had been put there as the result of a petition signed by over 500,000 voters. It asked, in effect, if Californians approved of legislation that had already enabled Pat Weaver's Subscription Television Inc. to go into business. Californians overwhelmingly said...
...public review only because STV uses telephone lines, a public utility. Last year the California Public Utilities Commission approved STV's contract with the Pacific Telephone Co., and the state assembly passed needed tax legislation. According to California law, any public issue can be decided on an election ballot if 8% of the state's voters sign a petition to put it there...
Arend, 61, a veteran of 30 years in Alaskan law, had no opponent on the ballot; all he needed was a simple majority of the total vote to win a ten-year term. Instead, both Republican and Democratic lawyers blasted Arend across the state, decried the court's jury bond rule, its 3% share in child-support payments and its upholding of the recent conviction of two Seward schoolteachers for the "immoral conduct" of trying to oust the school board and superintendent. The lawyers not only captivated schoolteachers, but they won over enough other Alaskan voters to kick Justice...