Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Occasionally, when a wayward voter rebuffed their earnest entreaties, they dropped to their knees to pray for the misguided soul heading toward the ballot boxes in the crowded Ames, Iowa, arena. But when their candidate finally strode onto the podium with the beaming countenance of a man blessed with faith in the righteousness of his path, the campaign workers leaped off their feet in joy. Leaning forward with the mild-mannered charm of a televangelist talking to a camera, yet drawing on the rhythmic cadences of a polished preacher, the Rev. Pat Robertson delivered an ecumenical version of the message...
Members of the Columbia College Student Council Election Commission stuffed ballot boxes and miscounted votes last spring in order to help their friends win their election bids, last year's commission chairman charged...
Schacter also said that if all the ballots recorded during last spring's elections were valid, 10 percent more people voted than in 1986. The rise indicates that ballot boxes were probably stuffed, he said...
...other candidates on the ballot, who have been running low-profile campaigns, are Joel San Juan and Richard A. Black, a follower of controversial presidential hopeful Lyndon LaRouche...
...runways at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport were unusually congested last week -- but this time by people. Several hundred aircraft workers gathered to protest a Cabinet decision to scrap the Lavi jet fighter. After months of impassioned debate, the final ballot was close: 12 to 11, with one abstention. Most Labor Party members voted against the project, while most Likud members were for it. After the vote Likud's Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens angrily quit the Cabinet...