Word: ballot
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...Chicago after this fall's congressional elections. Wilhelm's fate made for constant speculation inside the Beltway. The Clinton loyalist has been made a scapegoat for election losses since 1992 and is disdained by Democrats who believe he wasn't doing enough to prevent a rout in November's ballot. Some congressional Democrats complained that Wilhelm was so intent on using D.N.C. funds to promote Clinton programs like health-care reform that he has given short shrift to Democratic candidates hungry for support. Mikulski, who sees herself as the protector of the Senate's women, griped about Wilhelm's refusal...
Mexico's paradoxically named Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has weathered the toughest election in its 65-year rule -- i.e., the cleanest and most competitive vote in the country's history. By this evening, ballot counters said PRI candidate Ernesto Zedillo had a comfortable lead over rival Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, of the conservative National Action Party. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, trailed both. A hopeful sign: more than 70 percent of those registered voted, far above the expected 50 percent...
...this March. While he was never taken seriously by pundits, the struggling New York Libertarian Party managed to double its membership during Stern's brief candidacy to 800, a party official told TIME Daily. "He gave us the equivalent of millions of dollars of free publicity," says Blay Tarnoff, ballot access coordinater for the Libertarians, and an ardent Stern for Guv supporter. Left unsaid was the distinct probability that the Libertarians failed to gather the number of voter signatures required for putting Stern's name on the ballot...
When the two entered the office, they foundthat there were, according to Braunstein, "reamsand reams" of blank ballots lying in envelopesnext to the ballot...
Braunstein came to the office after Davisinformed The Crimson that blank ballots were leftunsecured next to the ballot box, where anyonewith a key to the offices could reach them...