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Donors to charities, private schools, and school districts could claim up to a 50 percent tax credit for their donations under an initiative currently circulating in Missouri. Supporters must collect signatures of 8 percent of voters in six congressional districts.
Augusta County residents have mounted an effort to recall five county supervisors who voted to approve unpopular tax assessments. Virginia does not have a traditional recall process, and signatures will go before a judge who will determine if the supervisors have been derelict in their duties. Recall leaders will have to collect signatures of 10% of the voters who voted in the original supervisors election.
President Barack Obama spoke in Los Angeles in favor of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s package of ballot measures. The measures are aimed at economic recovery and will be before voters in a May 19 special election.