Word: ballot
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Only two-fifths of eligible voters cast a ballot in the 1994 federal elections. This apathy is apparent throughout all segments of the American electorate, but is particularly striking among minorities. In the presidential elections of 1992, 64.5 percent of white women and 62.6 percent of white men cast ballots, compared to 56.7 percent and 50.8 percent among blacks respectively, and only 30.9 percent and 26.8 percent respectively among Hispanics. Minorities do not vote because they feel they can achieve little and certainly will not gain political representation...
...microsuck does it again," said one angry player on the site's bulletin board. Others complained of "ballot stuffing" and "lies, lies, and more lies." But it hardly seems likely Microsoft would so clumsily sabotage the game, especially after fellow techno behemoth IBM proved its might by using its most powerful computer, Deep Blue, to defeat Kasparov in 1997. Nor was the match one for which Kasparov was particularly pumped up, says Taylor. "He was going into it as an experiment to get more people involved in chess. He told me he was expecting a draw... This [botched e-mail...
...camera crews videotaping their every forage. For about six weeks, with as few supplies as if they'd fled a shipwreck, they must scrabble for food, water and shelter by cooperating. Up to a point, that is. Every three days, the group must also vote by secret ballot to expel one or two members--once for each of 13 episodes--until only two remain. The expelled members then decide which of the pair wins a $1 million prize...
...that is true, Proposition 187 might be Exhibit A. The intent of the voter-approved 1994 ballot measure was to deny state aid to illegal immigrants. Davis opposed it as lieutenant governor, and it was declared largely unconstitutional by federal courts. But its backers appealed, and this spring, Davis kept 187 alive by asking a federal court to send it to a mediator. "The obvious interpretation," Pete Wilson, head cheerleader for 187, told the Los Angeles Times, "is that he is trying to have it both ways...
...leather-faced old man intently folded his pink ballot and slotted it into the box, I felt a slight lump in my throat. I'm a sucker for the rituals and realities of democracy, and here we were in the remote Chinese village of Liujiachang watching a thousand citizens in a schoolyard listen to campaign speeches and then vote for mayor. The incumbent, a slick young man elected three years ago, promised to lower taxes and improve irrigation. The challenger, older and more earthy, promised to open the village books for inspection and eloquently described how his own success...