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Stories Posted on November 9, 2007
Tobacco-Tax Measure
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Wall Street Journal
Voters in Oregon defeated a ballot measure to fund a children's health-care program by boosting tobacco taxes, the third time an industry campaign has helped defeat new taxes to fund such programs -- and perhaps a signal to lawmakers in Washington regarding a similar plan to raise the federal tobacco tax.
Opinion: The people didn't really speak, given the low turnout
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Washington · Source: Crosscut
Here's a bracing corrective from reader Patrick Higgins, arguing that "the people" didn't really speak, as we pundits like to say, since the large majority of voters stayed silent. Mr. Higgins, you have the microphone:
Ballot defeat puts lawmakers in spin over 520 Bridge
Category: Transportation · State: Washington · Source: Seattle Post-Inteligencer
The roads-and-transit ballot measure may be dead, but one of its star projects, a new Evergreen Point Bridge, has state officials scrambling to salvage the $4.4 billion needed for the project.
Taxes, Stem Cell Funding, School Vouchers Rebuffed in Ballot Measure Voting
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey Oregon Utah Washington · Source: Congressional Quarterly
“Off-year” elections do not attract the large number of referendums and issue initiatives that are typically found on ballots in presidential and congressional election years. But Tuesday, the Election Day for most states holding 2007 contests, featured a handful of ballot propositions that had national implications. The following are analyses of the outcomes of four of these measures.
Marijuana measure not likely to matter
Category: Marijuana · State: Colorado · Source: Rocky Mountian News
Once again on a ballot measure, Mason Tvert pushed for allowing marijuana possession in Denver, and once again, he got it by a whopping vote total.