Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle, Proposition One. Voters here did approve this referendum over the well-financed protests of the business community, and Kuttner devotes a long, celebratory passage to the efforts to pass it. But the author glosses over the approval two years later, of Proposition 2 1/2, the massive tax cutting ballot initiative. Kuttner's evanescent constituency even in the nation's most liberal state, disappeared almost immediately...
...best ever devised by the mind of man. Yet an increasing number of citizens seem to share a contradictory view-that the system is not working. The evidence takes diverse forms. There are widespread demands for several differing constitutional amendments. And after the usual blizzard of declarations that every ballot is crucial, only 53% of the eligible voters went to the polls last November, the fifth voting decline...
...self-professed "Trotskyite" at an anti-Thatcher rally earlier this winter. As the thunderous roar of approval died down, the frail, white-maned figure of Labor Party Leader Michael Foot stepped to the microphone. "Throw the government out!" yelled Foot. Then he cautioned: "But prepare to destroy at the ballot...
...Paris Match poll conducted after that performance reflected a momentary gain of several percentage points in Giscard's first-round electoral chances. The President, moreover, is no doubt counting on French voters to follow a time-honored pattern: a brief flirtation with the left in the first ballot, followed by a rush to the center-right when it really counts...
...compromise proposal won in a secret ballot vote. After the vote, the audience broke into cheers and applause...