Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against. At that moment, Jacobs recalled, he realized he had "an opportunity to cast a decisive vote for public safety." So while opponents of the ban chortled in anticipation of a razor-close victory, Jacobs padded down the aisle and told the House clerk to change his ballot -- something that rarely happens on major issues...
...trio of holdouts whose decision would determine the fate of the bill. One voted in favor of it. Another against. And then Douglas Applegate, an Ohio Democrat who had exceeded the 15- minute time limit for electronic voting, paced up to the House clerk and filled out a ballot by hand. It was colored green, signifying "Yes." The measure had passed...
...pessimism, division, limited opportunity and turmoil," declared Nelson Mandela after he took his turn to vote an end to three centuries of racial hatred. "We are starting a new era of hope, of reconciliation, of nation building." All across South Africa the people lined up to cast a ballot to escape from their past. All along Rwanda's borders and into the instant refugee camps, they lined up to escape from the future...
Liston has maintained that the council didnothing wrong by leaving the materials in thecouncil office because a May I meeting stipulatedthat the ballots and ballot box would be keptthere...
...ballot-counting was completed late last night in the council office...