Word: ballots
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...four members of the Election Commission, Samp has supervised Cambridge's notoriously complicated elections, overseen voter registration programs, administered Cambridge's ethics ordinance and rewritten local ballot questions, among other duties...
...have gone too far in pushing equal rights in this country.'' In the federal courts several cases have been filed by angry whites that challenge race-based preferences. And in a development that could start a national free-for-all on the issue, Californians are expected to face a ballot initiative next year that would forbid preferences for women or minorities in state programs...
Into that climate comes the West Coast ballot measure, called the California Civil Rights Initiative. The brainchild of two academics, Thomas Wood and Glynn Custred, it would forbid the state to use race or gender preferences in employment policies, admissions or awarding contracts. Affirmative action has deteriorated into ``ethnic bean counting,'' says Wood...
...decision after former Vice President Dan Quayle decided last week to drop out of the race, raising Buchanan's hope of claiming Quayle's Christian Right constituency. Buchanan associates said he would attend a Republican convention in New Hampshire this weekend and compete in a straw-poll popularity ballot in South Carolina March...
...real. They are running for the state assembly on the ticket of the New Jersey Conservative Party, an infant group that plans to contest all 80 seats in the lower house this year. If it captures 10% of the popular vote, the party will be entitled to its own ballot position for national and state offices...