In Santa Cruz County, Watsonville voters backed a measure requiring ballot approval for name changes to public places.
Watsonville voters in the Pajaro Valley, meanwhile, were overwhelmingly approving a measure that would require ballot approval for proposed name changes to public parks, plazas and other landmarks.
State laws are often written in ways that permit, or even require, ballots to be poorly designed.
Some legal scholars believe the U.S. Supreme Court's decision ending Florida's manual recounts requires balloting procedures to be consistent statewide.
No one expected such an occurrence, and it may be that no future election will require ballot-counting accuracy of the kind this election requires.
Present law requires ballots with outdated New York party symbols — a star for Democrats, a bald eagle for Republicans — that confuse voters accustomed to donkeys or elephants.
While the candidates were feted by throngs of supporters, the State Supreme Court ruled late this afternoon that election officials should mail supplemental ballots to absentee voters who request them, rather than requiring ballots to be picked up in person.
Section 203 of the act requires ballots, forms, pamphlets and signs to be translated wherever 5 percent of the local population — or more than 10,000 voting-age citizens — speak the same native language and have limited proficiency in English.
A new Constitution he had drawn up last year requires balloting to "relegitimize" his mandate and elect governors of Venezuela's 23 states, mayors of the country's 334 municipalities and members of a new one-chamber National Assembly, state legislatures and city councils.
In 1802, Ohio required voting by ballot in "all elections".
