Sentence examples for push ballot from inspiring English sources

There is also a promising, if somewhat awkward, opportunity to push ballot reforms to eliminate the errors that helped Mr. Bush in Florida.

And in Maine and Washington, gun control supporters intend to push ballot initiatives, going directly to voters and bypassing elected officials, who they say are vulnerable to pressure from the gun lobby.

"Over the last 30 years, conservatives and corporate interests really pushed ballot initiatives that affect working families," said Sarver.

Connerly quickly took his battle to other states, deploying an aggressive multi-state approach often used by other conservatives pushing ballot measures.

Out of 209 million working-age Americans, that's a staggering 45percentt of the workforce, which may explain why Democratic tone-deafness to their plight pushed ballots for Trump in key rust belt states.

Instead, opponents are saying that they will try to push a ballot measure on the issue in 2015.

Next year, backers of same-sex marriage are expected to push for ballot measures in Oregon and Nevada and legislative action in Hawaii.

And in Arizona, advocates have expressed frustration that children are falsely being used to push a ballot measure, Proposition 122, which would attempt to give the state authority to undermine federal laws.

"And in the end they have us all push our ballots into the 'Emergency ballots' slot of a broken scanner to hopefully be recorded later.

Ms. Shaver is the spokeswoman for a coalition of Roman Catholic, evangelical and other groups pushing the ballot initiative.

In San Francisco, where Airbnb is headquartered, community and labor groups unsuccessfully pushed a ballot measure last year that would have created new restrictions on Airbnb users.