If the statewide initiatives were being contested only locally, Proposition 19 would probably win, and Proposition 23 would lose in a landslide.
The state of Maryland votes on a hotly contested "Question 6" proposition that would affirm or deny gay couples' right to marry.
One has to do with the number of numbers that can occupy points along a line; the other is a proposition hotly contested by mathematicians that deals with -- well, actually, despite several readings of Mr. Aczel's passages on this subject, I can't summarize what it deals with.
What propositions are is, of course, highly contested, but most agree that a proposition carves the class of possibilities into two sub-classes — those in which the proposition is true and those in which it is false.
Here are our endorsements in some of the most heavily contested City Council and other races and propositions to change the State Constitution and the City Charter.
"Plaintiffs are not aware of a single Florida case in which a court has held that it was required to review any ballots other than those contested by the plaintiff in the contest action, and neither the Circuit Court nor defendants have cited any authority for that proposition," the brief said.
"How can we explain such a proposition to those companies who must continue to defend contested cases not yet finally dismissed?" In a letter to companies involved in the fund, DaimlerChrysler's chief financial officer, Manfred Gentz, argued that no money should be paid until at least 13 cases, including recently filed, are dismissed.
In the most hotly contested vote yet, in California in 2008, hardly any polls predicted that Proposition 8, which barred same-sex marriage, would be upheld at the ballot box.
Appearing on the state's November ballot, Prop 37 has been hotly contested with opponents of GMO labels pouring tens of millions of dollars into efforts to defeat the proposition.
Everything else was contested.
