Sentence examples for ballot effort from inspiring English sources

"We think it is the most effective way of having California count," said Kevin Eckery, a spokesman for the ballot effort, the Presidential Election Reform Act.

The ballot effort was dogged by questions about who was paying for its sponsorship and accusations that signatures were being gathered among residents of Skid Row here.

But no bad idea ever really dies amid California's electioneering by impulse; Proposition 54 forces are already planning a new ballot effort to attract more attention.

Nowhere has that pushback been stronger than in Oakland, Calif., where federal drug agents recently raided Oaksterdam University, a cannabis industry training school that had been at the forefront of failed ballot effort in 2010 to legalize in California.

The case involved the National Organization for Marriage, which spent more than $1.8 million in 2009 in a successful ballot effort to keep a Maine same-sex marriage law from going into effect.

If the ballot effort fails, Planned Parenthood officials said, the organization will file a lawsuit in federal court to block the ban, which would set off the legal challenge the ban's authors still hope for.

This go-round, the governor's ballot efforts come with the blessing of some of the public employee unions.

In 2009 Maine's Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices opened an investigation of NOM to determine whether it had violated Maine's campaign finance laws by failing to disclose contributors to its ballot efforts.

Roger Stone, the political trickster who is organizing thousands of Donald Trump supporters to monitor polls on election day, was the chief strategist for a 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial campaign that benefited from a similar "ballot security" effort. .

Mr. Bush at least has tried to make up for these lapses by helping to lead the ballot reform effort in his state, which resulted in a new law that, while not perfect, vaulted Florida ahead of most other states in modernizing its voting apparatus.

In a brief filed Monday, John R. Phillippe Jr., the party's general counsel, said he sent a memo to all the party's staff saying the "RNC has no role and will not partake in any voter fraud or poll watching activities" and will not participate in "any ballot security efforts by other organizations, including Mr. Trump's presidential campaign".