Word: ballots
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...West Coast, unions and consumer groups have put two versions of a Patient Protection Act on November's ballot. Propositions 214 and 216 would require the state to enforce minimum staffing levels for licensed personnel at all medical facilities and would protect whistle-blowing health-care workers from being fired. Similar measures have been introduced throughout the country, from the U.S. Congress to the Cincinnati city council, but nowhere does the battle loom larger than in California. A coalition led by the health-care industry and the Chamber of Commerce has mounted a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to defeat...
...electorate has quieted in the last four years. Without the ability to dig deep into his personal coffers, Perot can hardly spend his way out of his deficit in the polls. But I can't help but be disturbed by the notion that a man who is on the ballot in almost all 50 states, has a national organization and has political positions on most of the major issues of the day isn't entitled to a national audience. How are new candidates ever going to break the two-party mold if they can't ascend a presidential podium...
This Saturday, students can step into the voting booth and cast a ballot for the next President of the United States...
WILLIAM DELAHUNT Democrat--Massachusetts 10th After a primary race that he lost and then won because of faulty ballot scanners, Delahunt was the victor in a more conventional general election...
DIED. CHARLES KIRBO, 79, unassuming Georgia lawyer who was former President Jimmy Carter's one-man "Kitchen Cabinet" and closest friend; in Atlanta. Kirbo first aided Carter in 1962, when he successfully argued a ballot-stuffing case that nearly cheated Carter out of a state Senate seat. Kirbo went on to advise Carter in his gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, as well as on the running of the White House. Kirbo always preferred anonymity, declining Governor Carter's offer to appoint him to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat...