Article: COLUMN: Minnesota caucus system a great tradition

Article: Clinton wins Dems' straw poll in Florida
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 16, 1991 ;     203 words ......Clinton won the Florida Democrats' presidential straw poll by a wide margin Sunday in balloting...Cuomo quipped in Albany. The Florida straw ballot was part of the biggest campaign day...that history shows the winner of the straw ballot will not necessarily win the March...

Article: Caucuses; Conduct a straw ballot March 3.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  November 28, 1997 ;     447 words ......Joan Growe to conduct a reliable straw ballot for governor, reportable by 10 p.m. on caucus night. A straw ballot would bring several benefits, even...of a drubbing in a highly visible straw ballot. Getting all major candidates to...

Article: ANALYSIS: FLORIDA STRAW VOTE IN TROUBLE
United Press International;  November 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ......meet in Tampa, Fla., to vote on the straw ballot. Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., and a...presidential race also may have made a straw ballot more attractive. Most Florida Democrats...Al Gore managed to escape without a straw ballot in 1999. The Gore campaign said it would...

Article: Women's group reportedly selects Mrs. Clinton as write-in candidate
AP Online;  May 3, 1998 ;     162 words ......month in Boston, a new Democratic women's group distributed a straw ballot with the names of future female presidential candidates...and organizers in the Democratic party. Newsweek said the straw ballot was distributed to the women attending the meeting. It did...

Article: Some in Villages may get more say on fees: Straw ballot deals with control of how amenity money is spent.
Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL);  September 11, 2006 ;     451 words ......authority over nearly $30 million in amenities fees. The straw ballot culls opinion and is not legally binding, but the vote could...to the residents, Villages official Janet Tutt said. The straw ballot could bring one of the biggest shifts in political influence...

Article: Portable homestead tax protection might become a nonbinding issue on ballot.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  August 10, 2006 ;     608 words ......leader next year, said Wednesday that the straw ballot question would have limited influence...and local lawyer. Keechl called the straw ballot question a political ploy, but Scott...Appraiser Lori Parrish, said she sees the straw ballot as helpful in fighting the Legislature...

Article: Broward to consider nonbinding ballot issue on homestead tax protection.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  August 10, 2006 ;     609 words ......leader next year, said Wednesday that the straw ballot question would have limited influence...and local lawyer. Keechl called the straw ballot question a political ploy, but Scott...Appraiser Lori Parrish, said she sees the straw ballot as helpful in fighting the Legislature...

Article: Miami Beach, Fla., voters to sound off on light rail, flyover.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 29, 2004 ;     477 words ......emerged as the most divisive of the three straw ballot questions voters will decide come Tuesday...than 50,000 square feet. Though the straw ballot questions are nonbinding, officials...urge residents to be informed about the straw ballot questions and the host of other amendment...

Article: Metro Ethernet Forum Establishes Formal Relationship With the International Telecommunications Union; Proposed Ethernet Services Timeline Introduced.
PR Newswire;  November 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ......technical documents to MEF ballot or straw ballot phase of consideration in the following...Definitions Technical Specifications reached straw ballot status. These documents will promote...Protection Technical Specification reached straw ballot status. Management -- chartered to ...

Article: AMBASSADOR BOLTON SPEAKS ON STRAW POLL FOR NEXT SECRETARY GENERAL
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......As you know we've just had our first straw ballot for the selection of the next Secretary...did here today. The first is to hold a straw ballot so early in the year, so early in the...there certainly were. But to hold the straw ballot this early is very significant. And...

Article: EDITORIAL: Straw Ballot on Casinos: A vote they can't prevent.(Editorial)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  May 11, 2007 ;     449 words ......to answer that question, they should take a moment after casting their for-real primary vote to voice their views in the straw ballot. Details on the straw vote effort are available online at www.phillysballotbox.org. The activists behind the straw vote believe...

Article: HILLARY WINS WOMEN'S GROUP'S PRESIDENTIAL STRAW POLL.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 4, 1998 ;     106 words ...Hillary Rodham Clinton for president? Last month in Boston, a new Democratic women's group distributed a straw ballot with the names of future female presidential candidates, Newsweek magazine reported, and the First Lady won the mock election...

Article: Annan takes early lead in poll for UN chief
The Independent - London;  December 11, 1996 ;     73 words ......the English-speaking Kofi Annan of Ghana emerging as an early front-runner ahead of Amara Essy of Ivory Coast. In a first straw ballot, Mr Annan, the UN Under Secretary General for Peace-Keeping, garnered 10 votes in his favour. Mr Essy won seven favourable...

Article: Light-rail system's fate is in South Florida voters' hands.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 31, 2004 ;     696 words ......Beach to the mainland is among three straw ballot questions voters will decide. The straw ballot questions are nonbinding, but city officials...agreed to support putting it up as a straw ballot question, if the commission supported...