Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has more representatives on the ballot because the Coop was founded in 1882 as a store to supply textbooks and firewood for Harvard students. MIT joined the Coop in the 1920s...
Stockholders selecting students for the ballot must divide their nominations among member schools. Four ballot spots are reserved for Harvard undergraduates, three for University graduate students, two for MIT undergrads, and two for MIT grad students...
...stockholders interview all student applicants and decide which 11 will appear on the ballot distributed to Coop members next March. Students also may bypass the stockholders and get on the ballot by securing the signatures of 100 Coop members...
...Farm workers in California are protected under a comprehensive state law allowing them to select through secret ballot which union, if any, they want to represent them. Time and again, California farm workers have rejected the UFW as their representative and have selected other unions to represent them...
...course, the ballot initiative is also home to the ugliest part of democracy ? the wedge issue. There will be no gun locks for children, marijuana for cancer patients or gay rights for workers in Washington State, all because the majority ? who wouldn't have to pay an extra cent ? didn't judge any of these proposals morally correct...