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Stories Posted on November 7, 2007
Racino, term limits extension rejected
Category: Term Limits · State: Maine · Source: Seacoast Online
The Passamaquoddy Indian tribe's proposal to build a racetrack-casino in eastern Maine, already turned back by three gubernatorial vetoes in two years, was rejected by voters in Tuesday's referendum.
Vouchers go down in crushing defeat
Category: School Choice · State: Utah · Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Voters decisively rejected the will of the Utah Legislature and governor Tuesday, defeating what would have been the nation's most comprehensive education voucher program in a referendum blowout.
Initiatives: Insurance reform gets a big yes from voters
Category: Tim Eyman · State: Washington · Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The insurance industry's $11.5 million campaign to repeal new consumer protection legislation was defeated Tuesday night.
New Jersey Election Results!
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey · Source: Courier Post
Tuesday's ballot included four public questions, the most put before the voters at one time since 1995. New Jersey voters haven't rejected a statewide ballot question since 1990.
Huge roads-transit plan gets trounced
Category: Transportation · State: Washington · Source: The Seattle Times
Voters rejected a multibillion-dollar regional roads-and-transit package on Tuesday, likely leaving state lawmakers with a transportation mess that could take years to sort out.
Oregon Election Results!
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
Measure 49 passes, Measure 50 does not.
California Black Chamber of Commerce Endorses Eminent Domain Ballot Measure
Category: Property Rights · State: California · Source: Earth Times
Today, Californians for Property Rights Protection announced that the largest African American business organization in California has endorsed the California Property Owners and Farmland Protection Act (CPOFPA), an eminent domain ballot measure slated to appear on the June 2008 ballot.
Sequim library backers eager to try ballot measure for expansion
Category: Taxes · State: Washington · Source: Peninsula Daily News
This place is minuscule compared with some other Sequim structures - which is part of the reason why its Friends are raring to expand it.
Proposed ballot measure would prohibit discrmination against all groups
Category: Civil Rights · State: Arizona · Source: Phoenix Business Journal
The Arizona Civil Rights Initiative filed an application Monday with the Secretary of State to place a measure on the November 2008 ballot to prohibit preferential treatment or discrimination by state government to any individual or group based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting.
Spending Trumps Social Issues on Ballots This Time
Category: Immigration · State: New York · Source: The New York Times
When it comes to the state and local ballot measures before voters across the country on Tuesday, it is mostly about the money.
In Denver, a Ballot Fight Over Marijuana Arrests
Category: Marijuana · State: Colorado · Source: The New York Times
In 2005, voters here approved a measure making it legal for an adult to possess an ounce or less of marijuana. But arrests for misdemeanor marijuana possession have risen since then.
Property tax caps could hit 2008 ballot
Category: Taxes · State: Arizona · Source: Phoenix Business Journal
Arizona voters could get a chance next year to approve California-style property tax caps. A new ballot measure --Prop 13 Arizona -- is being pushed by the anti-tax crowd. It is aimed at limiting property tax increases that have occurred in the Phoenix and Kingman areas in recent years and is similar to California's Proposition 13.
WA voters favoring triple-damages insurance measure
Category: Insurance · State: Washington · Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A record-setting opposition campaign couldn't buy a lead on election night, leaving foes of Referendum 67 with fading hopes for a comeback as Washington's vote count continues.