1.   Another would allow citizens to initiate statewide ballot referendums.

2.   Failing that, they may ask the voters to drive a stake through it in a ballot referendum possibly as soon as November.

3.   For the first time, as a result of a change in state law and a ballot referendum, charitable contributions will be deductible on state income tax returns.

4.   In fact, the only elected officials who seemed to be speaking freely were the county sheriffs, whose jobs were abolished Tuesday through a statewide ballot referendum.

5.   Johnson demanded a republic of virtue and used the ballot referendum to thwart railroad barons.

6.   LaSota said the racetracks would like to see the Legislature send the video lottery terminal idea to the voters in the form of a ballot referendum.

7.   Some Republicans are also proposing a ballot referendum on a proposal to require a special election to replace a governor who leaves office.

8.   The article also referred incorrectly to the relative amounts spent on the ballot referendum in California regarding Indian casinos in the state.

9.   The piece de resistance of the resistance is the threatened ballot referendum, known ironically, if not misleadingly, as the California Civil Rights Initiative.

10.   The state Legislature last summer approved a statewide ballot referendum that would legalize casinos in four areas of the state but not in New York City.