1.   Also on the ballot this year were several mainly technical initiatives, and one that would allow the state Legislature to define more clearly the rights of crime victims.

2.   All of this revolves around a man who is not even on the ballot this year.

3.   Citicorp managed to keep it off its ballot this year.

4.   Clinton was not on the ballot this year, so angry voters turned their wrath on the congressional incumbents of his party.

5.   Elle Magazine, for example, had three ballots this year, according to the council.

6.   In New York, Minnesota, Virginia and Oregon, the Reform Party got on the ballot this year by merging with an existing alternative party in those states.

7.   Kennedy, by the way, is not on the ballot this year.

8.   Monday marked the last state deadline for filing petitions to place measures on ballots this year.

9.   Most campaign strategists consider Attorney General Dan Lungren as the strongest GOP candidate on the ballot this year.

10.   Neither Bush nor Bullock was on the ballot this year.