Word: ballot
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Proportional representation allows citizens to rank their choice of candidates. Initially, each person's vote is counted towards the first choice candidate on his or her ballot...
...organization and means to take on those resisting reform without effective grass-roots mobilization. A referendum like Proposition 174 had too many gray areas to elicit much supportive enthusiasm. In fact, the voucher timetable had not even been clarified to the voters. With a more carefully designed school choice ballot, a silent majority of concerned parents would revolutionize one state's education system. And they would vault school choice into the place of public prominence it deserves...
...Lowell House this year even these few votes were unnecessary as only five candidates were on the ballot. Five candidates for five places. Hmmm. Write-in candidates? Well, outgoing council Chair Michael P. Beys '94 decreed all write-in candidates illegitimate. So much for democracy. Some of us used to laugh at the Soviet Union for just such farces...
...Crimson's Ballot Box election supplement in correctly identified one of the city council candidates. She is Katherine Triantafilou...
...proves disappointing, the Christian foot soldiers plan to continue exploiting dissatisfaction with the nation's schools in hopes of finding common cause with moderates and conventional conservatives. Looking ahead to more significant electoral battles in 1994, when voters in Idaho, Colorado and Arizona will address education issues at the ballot box, Ralph Reed, executive director of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, vows, "We'll be there with bells...