Correction: October 2, 2002, Wednesday A thumbnail sketch yesterday with a picture grouping of possible candidates to replace Senator Robert G. Torricelli on the New Jersey ballot referred incorrectly in some copies to the departure of Bill Bradley from the Senate in 1997.
A front-page article on April 8 about a political crisis caused by the possibility that Mexico City's popular leftist mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, could be forced off the 2006 presidential ballot referred imprecisely to protests he has led in the past.
The "industrial ballot" referred to the direct action methods (strikes, slowdowns, etc). of the IWW.
The parent companies, among them Kellogg, General Mills, Dean Foods, Smucker's and Coca-Cola, declined to talk about their opposition to the labeling initiative, which is on the November ballot, referring questions to Kathy Fairbanks, the spokeswoman for the No on 37 campaign.
Voting rights groups and progressive bloggers are already warning of a California "Butterfly Ballot," referring to the infamous voting slip from Florida that introduced the phrase "hanging chad" into the American lexicon.
Though it sounds on the surface as if Shelly is taking advantage of a confusing situation, Rick Abasta, the communications director for the president's office, thinks the press is guilty of "creating sympathy with a candidate that was disqualified from the ballot," referring to Deschene.
By the day of the referendum, the question on the ballots referred to a negotiation that had concluded.
Correction: January 11 , 2001 Thursday An article yesterday about plans by news organizations to examine some Florida presidential ballots referred incompletely to the procedure being followed in one such project, sponsored by The Miami Herald.
Correction: November 29, 2000, Wednesday A chart on Sunday tracking legal challenges over Florida's presidential ballots referred incorrectly to the Bush campaign's appeal of a decision by the Federal District Court in Miami, which refused to stop manual recounts.
Correction: November 19, 2000, Sunday An article on Friday about a federal appeals court's consideration of whether to allow manual recounts of presidential ballots referred incorrectly to Bruce S. Rogow, who said he was surprised by the court's decision to convene all 12 members.
Victoria and South Australia were the first states to introduce secrecy of the ballot (1856), and for that reason the secret ballot is referred to as the Australian ballot.
