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...clean out corruption in Sacramento by promoting direct democracy. All it takes to place a proposition on the statewide ballot is a fee of $200 and signatures of registered voters equal to 5 or 7 percent—depending on the type of initiative—of the turnout of the previous gubernatorial election. Unfortunately, what progressives fought so hard to implement has now been hijacked by special interest groups that mask their agendas through massive marketing campaigns...
...criminal investigation is underway to determine who is responsible for an ominous flier printed on official-looking stationary with a county letterhead, which was distributed at a Pittsburgh area shopping mall and mailed to untold numbers of residents. The flier explained that “due to immense voter turnout expected on Tuesday,” the election had been extended. Republicans were asked to vote today, Nov. 2, while Democrats were asked to vote tomorrow...
...score based on the answers to multiple questions (such as "Did you vote in the last election?") that indicate the likelihood that he or she will vote. The highest-scoring voters are deemed "likely." How high a score produces a "likely"? It depends. Pollsters first estimate what the turnout will be on Election Day and then designate the same percentage of their respondents--again, based on highest scores--as "likely." Assumptions of who will vote thus have an enormous impact on poll results (especially because minority and low-income voters, who tend to vote less consistently, usually get lower scores...
...might put it, they are trying not to get caught off guard by assuming a system is fair when it might be stacked against them. Much of the Democrats' anger is focused on local Republican officials, whom they accuse of applying election laws in ways designed to limit Democratic turnout--like Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell, who tried to reject tens of thousands of new registrations because they weren't printed on heavy enough paper. Around Scranton, Pa., the new G.O.P. majority on the county commission voted in mid-October to move 23 polling places, all of them...
Wisconsin has long been known as liberal, but it almost went to Bush four years ago. Bush needs a big turnout in the conservative Milwaukee suburbs and eastern cities like Oshkosh and Green Bay. Kerry hopes for big numbers in Milwaukee, Madison and western farm towns. One X factor: congressional Republicans have opposed extending a subsidy for dairy farmers...