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Stories Posted on November 8, 2007
An up and down night for ballot measures
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
It took The Oregonian's crack number crunchers all of 13 minutes to declare Measure 49 passed and Measure 50 failed.
Measure 49 passes big in Linn, Benton
Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Albany Democrat-Herald
Linn and Benton county voters overwhelmingly sided with the majority of Oregonians who want to redefine Oregon’s land use laws in voting in favor of Measure 49. Statewide the measure passed 572,997 to 361,555.
Voters Reject Slew of Ballot Measures
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey Texas Utah · Source: Associated Press
Cost-conscious voters rejected school vouchers for Utah students, state-sponsored stem cell research in New Jersey and higher cigarette taxes in Oregon to fund health care for uninsured children.
Insurance chief Poizner to lead fight against term-limit measure
Category: Term Limits · State: California · Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said Tuesday that he will contribute $1.5 million to and become the lead spokesman for the campaign to help defeat a term limits ballot measure that would allow current state lawmakers to stay in office longer.
Proposition 1: Voters hit the brakes
Category: Taxes · State: Washington · Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Voters in the central Puget Sound counties were rejecting the biggest transportation tax proposal in state history, one designed to unite transit and highway advocates to improve regional traffic congestion.
Voters favor insurance bill, rainy-day fund; Eyman's anti-tax measure passing
Category: Taxes · State: Washington · Source: The Seattle Times
Despite a record-setting deluge of spending by the insurance industry, voters on Tuesday handily approved a measure that allows policyholders to sue for triple damages if an insurance company "unreasonably" denies a legitimate claim.
New Jersey Voters Reject Ballot Measure for Property-Tax Relief
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey · Source: Bloomberg
New Jersey voters rejected a ballot measure that would have dedicated all of the proceeds of last year's sales-tax increase to reducing the state's property taxes, the highest in the nation.