Word: ballots
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...moment, all remain officially within Labor, but a formal split seems inevitable. Said Williams, 50, who was seen as the most likely leader of the breakaway group: "The Labor Party was born out of the secret ballot and universal suffrage. To go back to selection by the barons is unthinkable. It is a return to Tammany Hall politics." Owen, 42, a former Labor Foreign Secretary, insisted that "only a miracle" could now prevent the birth of a Social Democratic Party. In fact, late last week he told his Devonport constituency that he would not seek reelection as a Labor candidate...
...overwhelmingly Catholic Puerto Rico, such a bizarre ceremony, with its overtones of voodoo, seemed somewhat out of place. In fact, its significance was as much political as religious. In a for mer pantyhose factory nearby, dozens of party representatives were conducting a painstaking ballot-by-ballot recount of all 1.6 million votes cast in the island's gubernatorial election. The race between Governor Carlos Romero Barceló and his main challenger, Rafael Hernández Colón, had been so close that some of the Governor's more zealous supporters concluded that a ceremonial appeal for divine...
...biggest tax rebellion in Massachusetts since the Boston Tea Party. For years, residents paid property levies that were 70% higher than the national average. So, in the wake of California's Proposition 13, Bay State citizens placed their own tax-limitation initiative on November's ballot. Under Proposition 2½, property taxes would be limited to 2½% of actual market value, auto excise taxes would be reduced by 62%, and renters would be able to take a state tax deduction for half their yearly rent. Voters, fired with visions of immediate tax relief, overwhelmingly approved...
...broken plumbing. Voinovich wants to raise revenues for such maintenance needs by increasing the city income tax from 1.5% to 2%. Last week, on the second anniversary of default, the city council voted to put that proposal, even though voters defeated it in November, back on the ballot in February. Says Voinovich: "I feel like one of those rocket ships that are ready to take off. We're on the pad, but we need some fuel...
...only because his opposition on the left is so divided. Coluche is filling a void. More than 200 Coluche-for-President committees have sprung up across France, and he is confident that he will get the 500 signatures of elected local officials he needs to be placed on the ballot: there are, after all, more than 40,000 such officials to approach...