Word: ballot
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...tolerate the referendum, it has toned down its rhetoric and instead relied on pressure from the U.S., Taiwan's biggest ally, to discourage the move. In December U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the move was "a provocative policy." The fate of two referendum issues in Saturday's ballot (both failed to garner enough votes - or voter interest - to be seriously considered) would also make the controversial U.N. referendum in March unlikely to pass...
...like laughs and wardrobe choices guarantees that even the tiniest misstep will be recorded, documented, and analyzed by Wonkette et al. It’s no wonder that campaign managers have become savvy calculators of risk micro-management. All this tiptoeing around really means, however, is that at the ballot box we’ll be forced to choose between two equally shallow cardboard cutouts. What we need is a candidate with fire and drive, somebody respectful of America’s ideals and seasoned politically, yet bold enough to suggest drastic reform if the case calls for it. We?...
...strength of their appeal to voters who have plumbed their positions firsthand. Lastly, we believe that states like Iowa that hold caucuses should switch to a traditional primary system. The caucus system itself is notoriously undemocratic. The process, which takes several hours and does away with the secret ballot, has been aptly described as arcane. In addition, voters who cannot make it to the primary because they are working, sick, or deployed overseas have no way to participate. The sampling of Iowan voters that make it to the caucuses—under 15 percent of the voting-age population, even...
Which is why I was shocked to walk down to the gym and find the Republicans still sitting in their neat rows of folded chairs, waiting for their ballots to be counted while voting, by a show of hands, on their party platform. I'm sure they had their reasons, but I didn't immediately comprehend the logic of following a secret ballot with a process that involved raising your hands in a crowded room to declare your feelings on abortion, gay marriage and immigration...
...ally in the 2002 election. The wave of tribal killings erupted during counting that followed a Dec. 27 general election. At one stage on Sunday in this nation of 36 million, Odinga was one million votes in the lead. Election officials in Kibaki's strongholds then disappeared with the ballot boxes, only to reappear with dramatically enhanced tallies for the President, who was promptly declared the winner and sworn in less than an hour later. Kibaki's first act was to ban live TV and radio broadcasts of the resulting unrest. With the U.S., U.K. and Kenya's own Electoral...