Sentence examples for behind the ballot from inspiring English sources
He was behind the ballot measure that passed in 2004 requiring photo ID to vote and denying state services to illegal immigrants.
Instead, there is a fear that the state's entrenched interests, from the prison-guards union to party bureaucracies or "Prop 13" fanatics, will take over the process and make it a microcosm of the state's dystopia.Hoping to meet these concerns, the organisation behind the ballot measures, Repair California, proposes a random, jury-like draft of ordinary citizens as delegates.
PAGE A10 EFFORT TO INVALIDATE GAY MARRIAGES The people behind the ballot measure that barred same-sex marriage in California want the Supreme Court to, in effect, make the measure retroactive by invalidating the 18,000 or so same-sex weddings performed before the ban's passage.
The case was further complicated when lawyers for the coalition of conservative religious groups behind the ballot measure tried to have the trial ruling struck down after it emerged that Walker, the judge who struck down the ban 18 months ago, was in a long-term relationship with another man.
As proponents of same-sex marriage across the country planned protests on Saturday against the ban, interviews with the main forces behind the ballot measure showed how close its backers believe it came to defeat — and the extraordinary role Mormons played in helping to pass it with money, institutional support and dedicated volunteers.
The group behind the ballot - WHU's View - claims the club does not want to hear supporters' opinions on the move.
THE NEWS Crowds protested the announced results of the first round of voting for a new president of Haiti by blocking streets in the capital with piles of earthquake rubble, burning tires, setting fire to a party headquarters and clashing with United Nationspeacekeepers. BEHIND THE NEWS The balloting on Nov. 28 was rife with problems, and the official results were widely disbelieved.
Opposition peers leader Lord Strathclyde, who came second behind Lord Ferrers in the ballot with 174 votes, said immediately after the results were announced: "For those who won it is no cause for celebration, it is an honour.
Who might be able to push it from behind while the ballots are out?
The ordinary voter can at least hide behind the secrecy of the ballot.
But it's also what lies behind the success of the ballot for the Guardian's new editor-in-chief, which was held in March 2015 and delivered a landslide vote for Kath Viner.
