Sentence examples for broad ballot from inspiring English sources

For a preview: Here is the Supreme Court's 1968 Williams v. Rhodes ruling celebrating broad ballot access as fundamental to First Amendment protection political association.

Don't be swayed by the misleading promises of Measure S. Don't hold hostage badly needed housing with this overly broad ballot measure.

Montana is among several vanguard states whose voters eagerly legalized medical cannabis by passing broad ballot initiatives as many as 19 years ago, but left lawmakers struggling to regulate an industry that grew quickly with few rules.

The broader ballot measure applied to all unmarried couples, but it was clear that the primary intent was to exclude gay couples from consideration.

Meanwhile, Virginia's legislature is in an intense battle over Medicaid expansion and Utah's Medicaid expansion effort is gaining converts among Republican lawmakers even as a broader ballot effort to expand health benefits to the state's poor heads to the November ballot.

As a result, a broad array of ballot questions and campaigns for public office may be said to have an effect on present and future contracts between public-sector workers and their employers.

He had called for broad participation in the ballot to demonstrate Sweden's determination to resist violence and strengthen its democracy.

The deputy director of Naral Pro-Choice Colorado, Toni Panetta, said state courts could be swamped by suits claiming specific rights for a fertilized egg that the broad language of the ballot measure did not clarify.

More than a third of our fellow citizens will not bother to vote, not just on who will be our next president but to select their senators, congressmen, and whether to approve a broad variety of local ballot measures.

A Florida circuit court judge tonight set a deadline of 2 p.m. on Sunday for completing manual recounts of uncounted ballots ordered earlier in the day by the State Supreme Court and gave county elections officials broad discretion over which ballots would be counted as legitimate.

Trailing his Democratic challenger, Eliot L. Spitzer, by slightly more than 26,000 votes, Mr. Vacco, a Republican, has already raised, and then dropped, technical challenges to absentee ballots, and broad claims that thousands of votes might have been cast in the names of dead voters.