Word: ballots
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...election reform created in 1911 for the admirable purpose of giving people direct power to pass laws at the ballot box ran wild this year in California -- and the voters rebelled. Faced with 28 ballot initiatives, some with deliberately similar titles but with opposite intentions, Californians threw up their hands and rejected 22 of them...
...foreign correspondent -- six years based ! in Rome, seven in Paris -- and covered political campaigns from Galicia to Anatolia. This year he was charged with reporting not only the most important gubernatorial race in the nation, between Republican Pete Wilson and Democrat Dianne Feinstein, but also California congressional races and ballot initiatives. To do so, he teamed up with correspondent Jeanne McDowell and senior correspondent Edwin Reingold, who spent 11 years as Tokyo bureau chief, as well as photographer P.F. Bentley, a veteran of political campaigns in Haiti, Panama and El Salvador in addition to the U.S. The team's foreign...
...over state treasurer Ann Richards with an unending stream of bloopers. He called Richards a liar and refused to shake her hand. His doom was sealed in the closing days of the campaign when he not only revealed that he was ignorant of the only constitutional amendment on the ballot but also admitted that he had paid no income taxes in 1986, even though he is a multimillionaire. Williams' gaffes, along with his opposition to abortion, caused a defection of women from the G.O.P. Her victory, said Richards, represented "sociological change, not just governmental change...
...which has governed the country for 60 years, will permit a fair count in the state, where it lost in 1988. The party's reputation is not helped by the fact that two P.R.I. victories last year in the central states of Guerrero and Michoacan provoked opposition charges of ballot rigging and resulted in violent clashes between police and demonstrators...
Voters want clean air, clean water and unspoiled landscapes. What they don't want just now is the bill. Ballot initiatives designed to protect the environment were mowed down last week in almost every state where they appeared. Riled over taxes, fearful of recession and resentful of government propositions in any form, voters put the Green Revolution on hold...