Sentences with phrase «on state ballot»

With many Hawaiians expressing disillusionment with the Republican and Democratic parties, one REALTOR ® decided to give voters a third option on the state ballot.

Proponents of a state flat tax attempted earlier this year to gather enough signatures to put a flat tax proposal on the state ballot in November.

The proposed initiative, called Fair Affordable Insurance Rates (FAIR), is backed by consumer groups the Consumer Watchdog and Consumer Federation of America (CFA), and requires 305,000 signatures of Michigan voters by May 26, 2010 in order to appear on the state ballot in November.

In 2016, our fellowship provided 6 students and 3 team leads in New Hampshire, Colorado and Virginia to organize youth and students on state ballot initiatives and on elections that will keep fossil fuels in the ground and ensure a just transition to 100 % renewable energy.

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In several weeks, two states — Massachusetts and Georgia — will vote on state ballot measures to allow charter expansion.

Public school advocates gathered enough signatures to get a repeal measure on the state ballot, forcing him to navigate the fallout from teacher walkouts and an effort to overturn a signature accomplishment while asking for another term.

As featured on Diane Ravitch's blog a few days ago here, this (see below) is «the worst constitutional amendment to appear on any state ballot in 2014.»

An article («Schools to See Big Windfalls From State Ballot Measures») on state ballot measures in the Nov. 13 issue misidentified, on second reference, M. Dane Waters, the president of the Washington - based Initiative & Referendum Institute.

One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.

In 2014, Cuomo created a new third party, the Women's Equality Party, which appeared on the state ballot, and which political observers saw as an effort to siphon votes from the WFP.

Sliwa also said Reform aims to maintain permanent status on the state ballot, but needs to garner the required 50,000 votes in November.

The OCA was supported by Oregon's branch of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and worked constantly to put draconian and far - reaching anti-LGBT measures on the state ballot.

He got his start in campaigns by gathering signatures to get the 1980 Libertarian presidential ticket on state ballots across the country.

The votes are in, and Republicans now control both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, but as ScienceInsider reported earlier, there were also a number of science - related items on state ballots yesterday.

Voters turned thumbs down on most of the major tax - limitation initiatives on state ballots last week, defying the generally conservative trend of an election that saw historic Republican gains at the federal and state levels.

The following is a list of measures appearing on state ballots Nov. 7 that relate directly to precollegiate education.

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California's proposed privacy law, which will be on the state's November ballot, would guarantee citizens the rights to see what kinds of information large companies are collecting on them, and to prohibit those companies from selling their personal information.

The next steps for the states that voted «yes» on their respective ballot measures will vary, as regulators in each state will likely spend several months deliberating on the specific framework for a legal marijuana market.

Fourteen states have legal marijuana on the ballot in 2016, and a recent report showed that, under certain circumstances, legalization could generate $ 28 billion in tax revenue at the federal, state, and local levels.

Google partnered with law firm Perkins Coie to get the information for the new in - depth search tool, which lets users sort by state for info on ID requirements, deadlines, mail - in ballots, and early voting.

Continuing on the topic of jobs, raising the minimum wage beyond the $ 7.25 federal hourly rate is a key ballot initiative for this midterm cycle in several red states including Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Initiatives to land marijuana legalization on 2016 ballots are well underway in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Nevada, while a handful of other states could also put legalization to a vote.

Cannabis legalization, an issue that 68 percent of Millennials support, will likely be on the ballot in at least seven key states.

Angell says with up to 10 states voting on marijuana legalization at the ballot box this November, he expects to see more states to implement their own state - sanctioned industries.

Another study by professors from Kent State University and the University of Denver found that Democrats did not benefit from marijuana being on the ballot four years ago.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

Ballot measures approved in both states on Tuesday will take months to go into effect, with pot enthusiasts in Oregon having to wait until next summer to legally indulge and neither state likely to make marijuana available for commercial sales before 2016.

In a secret ballot on 23 June 2015, Yindjibarndi people throughout the State voted by an overwhelming two - thirds majority for change in the management and leadership of Yindjibarndi Native Title business.

When likely voters were asked whether a third - party candidate who is certified on a majority of state ballots should be included in the presidential debates, 76 percent said yes; 17 percent said no; and 7 percent were undecided.

As a result, the New York State Common Retirement Fund has withdrawn their shareholder proposal requesting increased reporting on climate change from this year's annual meeting ballot.

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Our new report uses more than 250,000 interviews with registered voters to provide insights at the national, state, and aggregated district level on President Trump's approval, key senator approval & re-elect ratings, generic ballot, and top issues for voters.

That such a gun - friendly state adopted any firearm restrictions represents a sea change, even more so as the restrictions were drafted and approved in a matter of three weeks, after a bipartisan vote and the signature of a Republican governor likely to be on the ballot later this year as a Senate candidate.

In the 2012 election, for example, in all four states that had marriage on the ballot, traditional marriage vastly outperformed the Republican presidential ticket.

Karl Rove lamented having to resort to this in 2004, when gay marriage was put on ballots in swing states as a Pied Piper to religious robots who answered the call to action.

In Ohio, the most contested of the 10 states to cast ballots on Tuesday, Catholics represented one of GOP primary's main constituencies.

If you know an establishments serves pork on Saturday and it clearly states so, why go there on Saturday and ask them to change the menu because of you.Same thing happen in Washington DC, even though there is absentee ballot, Jewish people want the District of Columbia to change voting day because it fall on Saturday.Trust me, contrary to your belief, you are not special.

The film premiered in 2008 just before California voters were to vote on Proposition 8, the California ballot proposition stating that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid.

That exhortation is worth recalling, now that the very idea of marriage is being contested on four state ballots, and in the national election, on Nov. 6:

Like in the 39 states that had it on a ballot.

Local media in the state, tonight, is reporting that ballot initiative SQ755, which bars state courts from using Islamic or international law, is on the path to approval — Yes votes outweighing Nos by more than two - to - one, with about 40 - percent of the precincts in.

Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an annual event organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly the Alliance Defense Fund), flaunts an IRS tax code restriction stating that churches risk their tax - exempt status if they endorse specific political candidates or positions on ballot issues.

Due to a voter - approved initiative that has the two highest primary vote - getters appearing on the general election ballot regardless of party, some November races for major state offices are contests between a leftwing Democrat and a radical Democrat.

This fall in Washington, Maryland and Maine, voters will decide whether same - sex marriage should be legal, and in Minnesota, voters will weigh in on a ballot measure amending the state's constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

A federal judge in Oklahoma has issued an order putting on hold the certification of a ballot measure that forbids state courts from considering or using international laws, as well as Sharia, or Islamic law.

There are some states that won't let an atheist be on the ballot, but they can still run.

Oklahoma voters are considering an unusual question that will appear on their ballots this Tuesday: whether Islamic law can be used in considering cases in state court.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

There is much to be said, for instance, on behalf of Justice Kennedy's complaint that the decision deprives the people of California of the right to govern themselves by referenda, if the losers of a plebiscite can challenge the outcome and, with the collusion of friendly state officials unwilling to defend the people's will, win in court what they can not win at the ballot box.