Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somerville City Hall bristled with activity as agents of both the Albano and Piro parties peered over the shoulders of official ballot counters to challenge any decisions in the tallying...
...some voters. How much of that was attributable to her individual political style and how much solely to the fact of her sex will be a key political question in the months ahead. But in any case, says Campaign Manager John Sasso, some early estimates of Ferraro's ballot-box appeal were simply unrealistic. "Expectations were very high, maybe too high," he says. "Some people expected she would singlehandedly sweep up all the ethnics, all the women. My god, that's three-quarters of the country...
...national passion for referendums and initiatives, grown so intense over the past decade, remains as ardent as ever. Voters in 43 states this year cast ballots on more than 200 statewide measures involving subjects that ranged from tax cuts to guidelines for vendors of false teeth. California fielded the most, with 17, followed by Arizona, 15. Originally pioneered by progressives early in the century, the proposals this year were often employed by conservatives seeking to ban state funding of abortions or permit prayer in public schools. Said Sue Thomas, executive director of the Denver-based National Center for Initiative Review...
...outcome was never in doubt. With roughly half of the presidential and legislative ballots counted, about 63% had gone to the Sandinistas and the front's presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, 38. The early results also appeared to guarantee a substantial smattering of representation in a new 90-seat National Assembly for the six other parties on the ballot. The veneer of pluralism, however, will be thin. Four of the parties in the race, including the Sandinistas, were Marxist-Leninist in orientation. Of the three non-Communist parties, one, the Independent Liberals, remained on the ballot even though...
...punch-in ballot and the complications of the write-in campaign are responsible for the problem, said Nancy A. Clover, Albano's legal observer for precinct...