Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assume this means that in some fashion, it will come up," said Rep. John A. Businger. D-Brookline, a supporter of the bill, who speculated that the measure would pass the Legislature in time to make the November ballot...
...hottest issue on Beacon Hill right now involves the nuclear freeze. While the Senate has approved placing a nuclear freeze referendum on the ballot in November--similar to one which passed last week in Wisconsin--the House has had some reservations, and key leaders are blocking its passage...
Kraus led a field of seven candidates and drew 28 percent of the vote. His closed opponent fell only 150 votes short. No Republican is running on the November ballot...
...Saturday afternoon Sansone diligently worked the floor--greeting, chatting and pleading with delegates--as the convention dealt with the race for lieutenant governor. The eventual victor of that seven-way, five-ballot, seven-hour battle was Evelyn Murphy, a former state secretary of environmental affairs. But ironically, Murphy's triumph helped seal her fellow female's fate at the convention. The reason in part for Sansone's drubbing, according to state political pundits: the convention wasn't yet comfortable endorsing two women for the same ticket...
...Craxi miscalculated. Interrupting his vacation in the Dolomites, Italian President Sandro Pertini, 85, rushed to Rome and asked Spadolini to form a new government. A lifelong Socialist, Pertini then reportedly reminded Craxi that in Italian politics the party that precipitates early elections usually suffers the most at the ballot box. Ultimately, Craxi appears to have been influenced by an equally persuasive fear: that the Communists would abstain in key parliamentary votes, allowing a minority government without the Socialists to stay in power...