Word: ballotting
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Greg Hyatt, a consultant for Citizens of Limited Taxation--which is sponsoring the referendum, question 2 on the November ballot--said the proposition's support is not eroding. "The scare tactics of the opposition are increasing, that's all," he said...
Quite rightly, Anderson takes pride in the fact that he began the Republican primary campaign as a relatively obscure Congressman from Illinois who barely rated an asterisk in national opinion ratings. He wound up collecting some 2 million signatures on petitions that should put him on every state ballot as an independent candidate on Nov. 4-an achievement many experts had considered impossible...
...have fought a good, clean, hard battle to get on the ballot, persevering over odds that people originally thought were impossible. I have rekindled the enthusiasm of young people with the process that was dormant, if not dead. I raised terribly important issues that otherwise would simply have been left on the shelf. The issues will live after me. This country has to wake up and face its problems in a new and a different way. Maybe it will take a year, maybe it will take longer, but others will think back on what I said and what...
They have been bitter political and personal enemies for years. In 1974, during a dispute over the results of Democrat John Durkin's first Senate race in New Hampshire, Republican Attorney General Warren Rudman, as a member of the state Ballot Commission, ruled against him. Durkin won the subsequent rematch handily. Then President Ford in 1976 tried to name Rudman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Senate never took up the nomination; despite denials from Durkin, who was a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, New Hampshire Republicans are convinced that he blackballed the appointee. Now Durkin...
...status. But Lawrence Lader, president of the plaintiff Abortion Rights Mobilization, suggests that the suit could have a restraining effect anyway. As Lader puts it, "I hope this frightens people enough to make them obey the law." More sobering than the suit, perhaps, were the results at the ballot box: Frank, Shannon and McGovern all won their primaries...