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Viewpoints: Prop. 29: Plan to raise millions is latest ballot-box budgeting boondoggle
May 12, 2012

California state worker unions reach tentative labor pacts with Jerry Brown
April 09, 2012

The State Worker: California state worker unions reach tentative labor pacts with Jerry Brown
April 09, 2012

Editorial: Students draw the line: No more cuts to higher ed
March 06, 2012

Editorial: Two-tier pricing fails fairness test
April 06, 2012

Viewpoints: If the state must raise taxes, then do it fairly
March 20, 2012

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Ballot Box Videos

Raw Video: Ballot Box Stuffed in Russia Election
March 05, 2012 | Associated Press

Soda Springs Gets Ready to Levy
February 24, 2012 | KPVI NBC Pocatello, ID

Sheboygan Candidates React To Vote Totals
January 18, 2012 | WISN ABC 12 Milwaukee WI

Ballot Box Wikipedia Information

A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually cuboid though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period. It will usually be located in a polling station although in some countries, notably Ireland and Russia,...

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Ballot-box pension reform wins first court test–voters win against unions
May 15, 2012
Ballot-box pension reform wins first court test Ed Mendel, CalPensions, 5/14/12 A superior court judge this month upheld a [...]

Camilla Taylor: North Carolina Amendment One Passes: Lambda Legal Issues Warning
May 09, 2012
NEW YORK, March 9, 2012 - After the passage of Amendment One in North Carolina, Lambda Legal issued the following statement from Camilla Taylor, National...

Terry O’Neill: NOW Renounces House Judiciary Vote Undermining Spirit and Intent of VAWA
May 09, 2012
May 8, 2012 - Statement of NOW President Terry O'Neill: The National Organization for Women condemns the vote today in the House Judiciary Committee. In a 17-15...

Ballot box is desired destination of new effort to derail high-speed rail
March 21, 2012
Ballot box is desired destination of new effort to derail high-speed rail Central Valley Business Times, 3/19/12 • [...]

Prop. 29 is Ballot Box Budgeting—and Creates another Gov’t Slush
March 05, 2012
Gov’t Waste Watch: Former California Treasury Official Slams Prop 29 -By Warner Todd Huston, Publius Forum, 2/28/12 The [...]

President Obama’s Health Care Law Already Benefiting Californians
March 22, 2012
Two years ago this week, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Obama. This law is almost a hundred years in the making and millions of...

Other local news reports

Death Penalty Debate Moves to Ballot Box
August 29, 2011 | RSS Feed: Capital Public Radio State Government News
California death penalty opponents are giving up their push to abolish capital punishment in the state legislature and turning instead to the initiative process. ...

From around the web

Jaczko the Jerk: Harry Reid's sexist crony gets the boot
May 23, 2012 | michellemalkin.com
But it's up to voters at the ballot box to get to the root of the problem -- and kick the head goon-in-chief to the curb. ...

Esther Cepeda: Hispanics in the mainstream on most issues
May 17, 2012 | indystar.com
For me, the most difficult thing about a full week of news reporting and punditry regarding President Obama's historic embrace of same-sex marriage has been getting buffeted by worn-out stereotypes about how Hispanics will act on the revelation at the ballot box ...

Lawmakers tally their hits, misses
May 13, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
VOTER ID (House Study Bill 582; House File 95) A proposal to require Iowa voters to show a photo ID at the ballot box went nowhere this year. A similar measure in 2011 failed...

Obama support stokes gay- marriage debate
May 10, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
' -- We' -- re 32 and 0 at the ballot box.' -- Iowans in fall 2010 voted to oust three of the Iowa Supreme Court justices who participated in a unanimous ruling that found a...

5 vie for Republican nod for sheriff
May 09, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
Citizens, by ballot box, decide whom they want to trust with their own safety and security. Consequently a bond develops between the sheriff and the community like no place...

Obama voices his support for gay marriage
May 09, 2012 | indystar.com
Some top aides argued that gay marriage is toxic at the ballot box in battleground states like North Carolina and Virginia because, as Tuesday's vote proved, the issue remains...

Ballot Box on twitter

	RT @tahDeetz: RT @teacherspets: Conservative group in Colorado to greet #Obama w/radio attack ad - The Hill's Ballot Box http://t.co/bFzc9bZs #tcot #news Twitter: @USpace123
	Poll: Biden’s favorability rating sinks - The Hill's Ballot Box: http://t.co/Jt39hcVu Twitter: @NECAGovtAffairs
	The Progressive's Guide to Raising Hell: How to Win Grassroots Campaigns, Pass Ballot Box Laws, and Get the Chan... http://t.co/11qwE4GZ Twitter: @cgunuu8
	RT @teacherspets: Conservative group in Colorado to greet #Obama w/radio attack ad - The Hill's Ballot Box http://t.co/bFzc9bZs #tcot #news Twitter: @tahDeetz
	4 in 10 Democrats desert Obama in Arkansas, Kentucky primaries http://t.co/STnYZm8C #dem #gop Twitter: @ajcgaelections
	Poll: Biden's favorability rating sinks (@joneasley / Ballot Box) http://t.co/aR2mCC0E http://t.co/ZOWhi88r Twitter: @memeorandum

YouTube Videos

13 - Ballot Box Bunny.
May 18, 2011

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December 19, 2010

Ballot box man
March 16, 2012

Ballot Box Books

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Ramachandra Guha, $10.00

Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush
Paul F. Boller Jr., $11.35

3-D Displays for Libraries, Schools and Media Centers
Earlene Green Evans, $46.93

Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West
Timothy P. Duane, $17.50

Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Statesman (Signature Ser.)
Harry J. Sievers, $28.63

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