Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possibility of ballot stuffing or tampering could force the council to invalidate some of the votes cast Monday, according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...
...questions as they appear on the ballot areworded exactly as they appeared on Davis'petition, according to council President Carey W.Gabay...
Voters, especially blacks eager to embrace the day of their liberation, were not deterred. The election, astonishingly peaceful, succeeded beyond all preparations. Lines of determined voters stretched a mile and more at polling places. Many polls opened hours late or ran out of ballots or the invisible ink used to mark the hands of those who had already made their choice. The ballots, printed weeks ago, did not include the last entry in the race, the Inkatha Freedom Party, and had to be updated with paste-on stickers; to ensure fairness, Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi demanded a fourth...
...Once his ballot was in the box on a schoolhouse porch in Inanda, a township soaked with the blood of battles between the A.N.C. and Inkatha, Mandela very quickly stepped into his new role as leader of the nation -- all the nation. "Our message," he said, "is that the basic needs of the masses of the people must be addressed. These are our priorities." At the same time, he had words of reassurance for whites. "We are concerned about giving confidence and security to those who are worried that by these changes they are going to be in a disadvantaged...
Under the interim constitution, any of the 19 parties on the ballot that receives at least 5% of the vote is entitled to a seat in the new Cabinet. In any case, as one of his confidence-building measures, Mandela intends to keep present Minister of Finance Derek Keys and Central Bank director Chris Stals in his government of national unity. Keys is an optimist about the transition. "From an economic point of view," he says, "I think it is going to work very well." Even so, Keys is worried that the A.N.C. development plan was put together...