Word: ballot
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...courts-a grass-roots army of over 6,000 volunteers who have been making more than a million phone calls to get Giuliani supporters to vote early. If historical trends hold, roughly one-third of the Republican votes in Florida will be cast before Election Day, either by absentee ballot or by "early voting" at polling places set up across the state...
...normally loquacious Senator, who is rarely silent and hates to miss a punch line, was tuning the rest of the room out. Rumors that the primary was about to be called for McCain had fizzled, supplanted by whispers that Mike Huckabee had taken a slim lead in the ballot count. For a moment, it all seemed as though it were going to fall down again...
...since his historic victory in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses. (In Nevada, entrance polling indicates Obama won 80% of the fairly small black vote.) In the largely symbolic Michigan primary earlier in the week, 75% of African Americans cast their votes for "uncommitted" because Obama was not on the ballot. "You have to assume we lose South Carolina," says a Clinton strategist. Like Michigan, the Jan. 29 Florida primary technically doesn't count because the Democratic National Committee stripped the state of all its delegates when it leapfrogged ahead of Feb. 5 without permission from the Democratic National Committee...
...when the former KGB/FSB officer-turned-dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London with polonium-210, and the Brits demanded extradition of their prime suspect, Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi. Citing the Constitution, the Kremlin turned down London's demands - and promptly elected Lugovoi as a Duma member on the ballot of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's rabble-raising nationalists...
...order to mount a successful third-party bid, independent candidates must complete a set of complex ballot access procedures in each of the 50 states. The process usually requires candidates to submit thousands of signatures on petitions to state election boards and meet varying deadlines. In Texas, for instance, an independent candidate must file petitions with signatures equal to one percent of the total votes that were cast for governor within 61 days of the primary elections, which will be held this year on March 4. But getting on the ballot is generally not a hurdle to third-party candidates...