A second candidate, David Malpass, a former chief economist at Bear Stearns, also earned enough votes to qualify for the primary ballot.
He also displayed a series of photos showing a man whom he said he knew voting several times, and video of the local election chief stuffing ballot boxes himself.
She responded with a lawsuit complaining that the ethics rule intruded on her freedom of speech.The majority opinion in Williams-Yulee v Florida Bar, issued on April 29th, opens by noting a distinction between judges and other elected officials: "Judges are not politicians, even when they come to the bench by way of the ballot," Chief Justice Roberts writes.
The PRI only fuelled such suspicions by choosing Fernando Gutierrez Barrios, a former secret-police chief, to run the ballot.
SACRAMENTO — Less than two weeks before Election Day, the chief strategist behind a ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage in California called an emergency meeting here.
The Pakistani Taliban would love to put a bomb under all that; yet the chief beneficiaries of the ballot box, Imran Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, balk at confronting the fundamentalist menace.
The Tamarrod campaign, a new protest movement that spearheaded Sunday's protests, issued a statement rejecting support for Ahmed Shafiq, the former air force chief defeated at the ballot box by Morsi last year.
It was no accident that at the Austin news conference today, Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's chief strategist, said the ballot called into question in Palm Beach County, Fla., was similar to one used in Chicago in this week's election and "historically".
With the recommendation, which will be discussed at public forums in the next month, the stage has been set for a lively exchange between advocates of removing party labels from the ballot -- chief among them the Bloomberg administration -- and the party leaders and others who oppose it.
Barbara Coombs Lee, chief sponsor of the ballot measures that established the Oregon law, criticized Mr. Ashcroft yesterday for what she called his "heavy-handed and brazen usurpation of state sovereignty" as well as his "insult to Oregon and its government that have regulated assisted dying carefully and responsibly for four years".
