Word: ballot
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...election night, voters rank their choices among the candidates. To win a candidate must reach a quota of "No. 1" votes, based on the number of eligible voters. After a winner is declared, his or her votes are passed on to the next preferred candidate on each ballot...
...beaten up, denied housing, and discriminated against by employers. In Georgia earlier this summer, the State Attorney General Michael Bowers revoked a job offer when his potential employee revealed her recent lesbian commitment ceremony. Symbolic marriage offers no protection from discrimination. In recent years, numerous referenda have come to ballot to legalize discrimination against lesbians and gay men in such states as Maine, Oregon and Colorado. According to the Anti-Violence Project, anti-lesbian and gay violence-bashing, violent attacks, shootings and other incidents-increased by 6 percent in 1996. We are still on the defensive, trying to prove...
...system and infrastructure, whose deficiencies allowed Atlanta to ?steal? the centennial Olympiad. ?Athenians are particularly proud this time, because they feel they?ve been awarded the Games not on the basis of birthright, but on the basis of merit.? The city beat out ancient rival Rome on the final ballot, after Buenos Aires, Stockholm and Cape Town were eliminated in earlier rounds of voting...
...entrenched P.R.I. or any other political party for Mexico's economic and political struggle. I blame myself and all the other Mexican people who gave up constitutional rights when we began to believe that corruption and favoritism were stronger than our individual voices and the power of the ballot. ERIKA L. MENDOZA San Jose, Calif...
...remarkable election in Mexico. As a dour procession of villagers strode to the polls in San Andres Calpan, southeast of Mexico City, Bermeo, 21, rode up on a neon-colored bicycle. Wearing a fringed vest and oversize rainbow-colored sunglasses, he swaggered into a booth to mark the first ballot of his life--and step into the vanguard of a democratic revolution. No way, he said, would he vote for the authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has ruled Mexico virtually unchallenged since 1929. "Every week I have to go to Mexico City to find work because P.R.I. corruption...