BALLOT QUESTIONS AROUND THE COUNTRY
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of Arkansas voters that provides that a minor may not be adopted or placed in a foster home if the individual seeking to adopt or to serve as a foster parent is cohabiting with a sexual partner outside of a valid marriage; and states that the prohibition applies equally to cohabiting opposite-sex and same-sex individuals?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of Nebraska voters that prohibits discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis or race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting by the state or any of its agencies, institutions or political subdivisions?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of Oregon voters that caps at two years the amount of a time a public school student may be taught in a language other English?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of Michigan voters that permits the use and cultivation of marijuana for specified medical conditions?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of California voters that requires that, without exception, restitution be ordered from offenders who have been convicted, in every case in which a victim suffers a loss. The measure also requires that any funds collected by a court or law enforcement agencies from a person ordered to pay restitution would go to pay that restitution first, in effect prioritizing those payments over other fines and obligations an offender may legally owe?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of Oregon voters that sets mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug and property crimes and identity theft; establishes a new felony crime of motor vehicle theft; and requires that the person convicted of these crimes must serve the full sentence and may not have the sentence reduced for any reason.
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of Connecticut voters that allows 17-year-old citizens who will turn 18 on or before the day of a regular election to vote in its primary election?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of Hawaii voters that sets the age qualification for the office of governor and office of lieutenant governor at twenty-five years of age?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of Maryland voters that allows qualified voters: (1) to vote early on no more than 10 other days during the two weeks immediately preceding an election; and (2) to vote at polling places in or outside voters' election districts or wards?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of New Mexico voters that requires school board elections in school districts with populations of more than 200,000 to be conducted by mail-in ballot?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of South Dakota voters that eliminates term limits of state representatives and state senators?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of Oregon voters that establishes a single May primary election for all candidates (regardless of party or independent status) for each public office, with the top two finishers for each public office running against each other in a November general election?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of South Dakota voters that prohibits all abortions, except for: (1) abortions medically necessary to prevent death or the serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily organ or system of the woman; and (2) abortions to terminate a pregnancy of less than 20 weeks resulting from rape or incest reported to law enforcement?
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Would you support or oppose a measure in front of Minnesota voters that imposes a new 3/8 cent statewide sales tax for twenty-five years to provide additional funding for wetlands preservation (33 percent of the total), water quality (33 percent), parks (14.25 percent), and the arts (19.75 percent)?
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QUESTIONS ABOUT YOU
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Do you think that statewide ballot questions will have much of an effect on the outcome of the 2008 presidential campaign?
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Yes, a lot:
5%
Yes, some:
29%
No, not really:
66%
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Do you generally study statewide ballot questions before you get to the polling place?
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Yes, a lot:
33%
Yes, some:
59%
No, not really:
8%
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How often do you skip the ballot questions when you vote?
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I always or usually skip all of them:
1%
I always or usually skip some of them:
6%
I hardly ever skip any of them:
34%
I always vote on all of them:
59%
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Were your votes in this week's Mini-Poll influenced by the name of the state in which the ballot question was being considered?
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Yes:
3%
Maybe a little:
10%
No:
87%
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Into which of USA Today's categories of voters do you BEST fit?
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True believer:
19%
Fired up & favorable:
17%
Firmly decided:
41%
Up for grabs:
3%
Skeptical and downbeat:
5%
Decided but dissatisfied:
15%
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