Word: ballot
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...play today. Every one of Dole's 1996 G.O.P. opponents is swiping at the front runner with increasing ferocity, especially Phil Gramm, the Texas Senator who staged a surprising tie at the Aug. 19 Iowa straw poll most everyone expected Dole to win handily. Of course the Iowa ballot was phony; anyone who bought a ticket could vote, even non-Iowans, and some confessed to having voted more than once. It was still a test of organizational strength, but it was only the first part of a two-pronged strategy: rough Dole up and then cause him to lash...
Practical considerations also played a part in Perot's change of mind. His legal advisers told him that election laws in most states would bar using the party strictly as a pressure device--that is, to offer an extra ballot line as a prize to Republican or Democratic congressional candidates who toe Perot's line. Meanwhile, most U.W.S.A. chapters are not up to the Herculean task of fund-raising and recruiting efforts that would be necessary to field their own slates everywhere. In fact, the organization has suffered periodically from internal feuds within states and from tension between local activists...
...small compared to those of the huge monied interests." He adds, "The consumer groups have worked hard on this, but they are soft voices compared to the screaming of the people for hire." The consumers, in the end, have an important opportunity for revenge. If they are angry when ballot time comes, they can always elect to disconnect...
...Orange County has a tradition of hostility to taxes. Many residents have yet to feel acute pain from the 41% cut in the county budget imposed since the bankruptcy: teachers stayed in the classrooms, and fire stations remained open. Above all, voters saw a yes ballot as an inappropriate affirmation of the county's supervisors, most of whom presided over the Citron debacle. Says Wayne Barber, a communications consultant in Irvine: "If even one of the bastards had resigned, I would have voted...
Still the officials in Cap Haitien wouldn't budge, so international observers were forced to unload the ballots and wait until morning. At 5 a.m. a convoy of trucks careered through the streets in a last-minute distribution dash. The display was typical of the chaos that beset voting stations across the country. Ballot boxes turned up in the oddest places: stacked on street corners, stashed beneath poll workers' beds, tossed into ravines. But such irregularities are one thing; the gunshots, screams and sirens that have traditionally attended mass action in Haiti are another, and they were notably absent from...