Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A poll tax is a tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources. Various privileges of citizenship, including voter registration or issuance of driving licenses and resident hunting and fishing licenses, were conditioned on payment of poll taxes to encourage the collection of this tax revenue.
The use of public funds to conduct opinion polling concerning a local tax proposal becomes more controversial when the poll also includes questions of a political nature ordinarily utilized in a subsequent election campaign (e.g., testing support and/or opposition arguments for use in a subsequent tax election campaign) as opposed to only ...
[538 38] In the end, Silver's projections were off the mark, particularly compared with those of some other organizations, and Silver wrote a post mortem on his blog. [538 39] Silver examined the pitfalls of the forecasting process, [538 39] while Sexton discussed the final government agreement between the Conservatives and the Liberal ...
2. Check who sponsored the poll. On 538's polls page, we note not only the polling firm that conducted the poll, but also (if applicable) the sponsor who paid for it. Oftentimes, these will be ...
On Tuesday, 538 released its 2024 election forecast for the House of Representatives. The general idea behind our forecast is to combine polling data (say, on which party Americans want to control ...
40 – Passed – The California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act of 2002. AB 1602. 41 – Passed – Voting Modernization Bond Act of 2002. (Shelley-Hertzberg Act). AB 56. 42 – Passed – Transportation Congestion Improvement Act. Allocation of Existing Motor Vehicle Fuel Sales and Use Tax Revenues ...
According to 538's analysis of polls conducted in competitive states* in which over 95 percent of the expected vote was counted as of Nov. 8 at 6 a.m. Eastern, the average poll conducted over the ...
79 – Passed – 1988 School Facilities Bond Act. 80 – Passed – New Prison Construction Bond Act Of 1988. 81 – Passed – California Safe Drinking Water Bond Act Of 1988. 82 – Passed – Water Conservation Bond Law Of 1988. 83 – Passed – Clean Water And Water Reclamation Bond Act Of 1988. 84 – Passed – Housing And Homeless Bond ...