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Ballotpedia is a wiki-style website billed as "an interactive almanac of state politics". InfoWorld has called it one of the "Top 20 Election Day Web sites and online tools".
Ballotpedia's purpose is to cultivate a "thriving citizenship through the free and open sharing of information". The website "provides information on initiative supporters and opponents, financial reports, litigation news, status updates, poll numbers and more". It is a "community-contributed Web site, modeled after Wikipedia" and "contains volumes of information about initiatives, referenda, and recalls".
As of June 28, 2011, five states, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Jersey and Texas, have measures certified for the 2011 ballot.
As of March 15, 2012, there are 75 measures certified for the ballot in 28 states.
Ballotpedia was founded by the Sam Adams Alliance in 2007, along with Judgepedia and Sunshine Review. The Sam Adams Alliance teaches a "decidedly libertarian, taxpayer mission for conservative watchdogs of state and local governments". In 2009 sponsorship of Ballotpedia was transferred to the Lucy Burns Institute.
There's no time, there's no time to lose yourself,
You know you can't give up, no way
Try to find, try to find something to build,
Instead of breaking everything
And now you're on your own
Keep on cryin' 'cause today you lost your love,
Keep on cryin' keep on cryin' for yourself,
Keep on cryin' 'cause today you lost a lot / the one
Keep on cryin' There is nothing more to do
Be wise, be wiser than you were
You think you'll never find a way
You're never through, you're never through
Until you're trought You know it's time
To face yourself
And now you're on your own
Now, when you meet a someone
You thank God I'm gone this time
An old friend you know
Is on the phone, he's all alone
Build a dream and stick to it