Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second would mandate that all tax bills require a three-fifths majority approval in the legislature. By Aug. 10, volunteers all over the state had collected more than 525,000 signatures for each proposal, about 200,000 beyond what is needed to get both measures on the November ballot...
Petitions are also being circulated to remove state legislators who voted for Blanchard's tax package. There is a fledgling lobbying effort, similar to the one in Ohio, to put on the November 1984 ballot an amendment to the state constitution that would roll back the tax levels to those that existed on Dec. 31, 1981, and require a four-fifths approval of the legislature to pass any new taxes...
Whenever the outgoing Prime Minister's name was mentioned from the speaker's podium, the noisy crowd of Herut loyalists erupted with cheers of "Begin, Begin." But as the long night of ballot counting passed, the name Shamir began to be heard more often. By 1:40 a.m., the decision was official. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 67, had defeated his only rival for the top party slot, Deputy Prime Minister David Levy, 45, by 436 votes to 302. The rapid sequence of events that had started with Begin's sudden announcement that he would resign seemed...
...losing influence to a fresh crop of up-and-coming figures who are developing political bases at the state and local level. Their styles are an intriguing mix: some seek confrontation, most build coalitions that cut across racial lines. But they share a belief in the power of the ballot. Herewith profiles of six of the new generation...
...leftists had been successfully organizing, and wooing, local peasants, another P.R.I, loss seemed imminent. Yet when the votes were counted, the P.R.I. had swept all 17 seats. The opposition immediately accused the ruling party of having used ten-year-old voters, a drunken electoral representative and out-and-out ballot box-stuffing to ensure victory, but it has so far offered no proof of foul play...