More than half of the 1.9 million British people who applied for tickets in the first public ballot opted for the evening athletics session on 5 August, which includes the men's 100m final and the women's 400m final.
And the policymaking process -- as well as public confidence that government officials have their eye on the public rather than on the ballot box -- will suffer as a result.
It seems easier to go along with bad regulations and fight them in the court of public opinion or at the ballot box rather than simply disregard them and face another raid.
Public sector union Unison is to ballot its members over a 1% pay offer made by Scottish local authority employers.
Most other states call for their state legislatures to put ballot measures before a public vote before they are enacted.
Mr. McGinn, Seattle's mayor, said any arena financing must comply with a 2006 ballot measure that keeps public funds from subsidizing investments in sports franchises.
That year, then-Gov. Pete Wilson, a Republican, backed a statewide ballot initiative denying illegal immigrants public education and social services.
Public sector workers in Jersey backed calls for a ballot on industrial action during a rally.
The highest income tax rate in the state moves to 11% from 9%, which will give Oregon close to the highest rate in the nation. (New York City residents pay 12.6%.) This ballot outcome runs contrary to the current public mood about spending and taxes, so it's worth exploring how it happened.
Let us then submit those proposals to a popular vote with the requirement that the two plans receiving the most votes after a primary-type ballot would then be ultimately submitted to the American public for a vote within, say, 90 days.
And as long as Democrats were willing to ignore the ever-increasing concerns of people who tied their faith with public policy, the GOP would continue to clean up at the ballot box.
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He has denied jobs as well as identity cards and passports to people who signed in favor of the re-call referendum, a public referendum aimed at placing the continuation of the Chavez regime on the ballot.
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With polls showing strong public opposition to same-sex marriage, groups fighting Tuesday's ballot measures conceded from the beginning that theirs was an uphill fight -- but they embraced the silver lining that the ballot measures were at least an opportunity to debate the issue.
The result of a strike ballot by Unison, which has a million members working across the public sector, is due to be announced on Thursday.
He proved it by, among other misdeeds, stealing public money, packing the state payroll with his friends and relatives, stuffing the ballot boxes and ruining his political rivals.
In 1994, Wilson -- who was by then California governor, and fighting for re-election -- turned himself inside out and hitched his wagon to Proposition 187, an insanely cruel ballot initiative that intended to deny illegal immigrants and their children access to public schools, welfare benefits and nonemergency health care.
Now conservative voters in South Carolina have through the ballot box stated that they prefer Mr. Gingrich, with his ethically challenged public and private lives, to Mr. Romney, whose personal life and professional career have been morally and productively impeccable.
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One Republican elector in West Virginia has already gone public and said that even if President Bush wins the state he might not cast his ballot for Bush because he disagrees with White House fiscal policies and the war in Iraq.
And Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has attacked his reputation as a reformer over the past week, accusing McCain of trying to evade federal spending limits by opting out of public financing after using the promise of federal funds to obtain a bank loan and automatic ballot access for his primary campaign.
In California during the 1990s, Latinos read the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Pete Wilson, a Republican governor, as racist and were outraged when voters passed a ballot measure (later ruled unconstitutional) to bar undocumented immigrants from non-emergency public health care, welfare and education.
Four others who took industrial action in June - the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the National Union of Teachers, the Public and Commercial Services Union and University and College Union - do not need to hold another ballot if they want to strike.
The 27 candidates (including Obama and Romney) on at least one state ballot is a record number, he says, which is an indication of the level of public unhappiness with the two parties.
Opponents of repeal suffered a setback when a compromise move by a backbench Labour MSP to include a public commitment to marriage in the replacement legislation was heavily defeated by a Scottish Parliament committee hours after the ballot result was announced.
The motion instructs the union's leaders to "prepare to ballot members for a national one-day strike in co-operation with other teachers' organisations and public sector unions".
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And there it will be, though not and this, too, is vintage California without competition from another ballot measure that also seeks to raise taxes for much the same motive (ie, mainly to save public schools).
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