Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suit alleges that the petition to get rentcontrol on the state ballot should not have beencertified because it violates the "home rule"portion of the state constitution...
Similar types of disinformation have occurred in other elections. International observers reported that in Ethiopia's elections, some people believed that dwarves were hiding in the ballot boxes to steal votes...
...addition to the ballot would allow students to decide whether to distribute unspent funds at the end of the year to house committees. Already on the referendum are questions on the term bill fee hike and the elimination of the check-box option on student term bills to waive the council...
...became the county's first black commissioner since Reconstruction. Yet Gill's road would not have been paved had he and other Chilton County blacks not voted for Agee seven times apiece -- legally. It was an act that, radical or not, put them in the vanguard of a ballot-casting experiment called cumulative voting, one of a brace of methods hailed by some as the future of suffrage but labeled antidemocratic by no less an authority than Bill Clinton...
Davis has criticized the council's reluctanceto put all five issues on the ballot. She calledthe decision to eliminate four of the issue "aninsult to the intelligence of Harvard students andsay they want a vote...