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...that raises taxes on the middle class. When it comes to Iraq, Bush never offered voters any new approaches (and Kerry never clearly defined any alternatives). If Republicans think Bush has a mandate to invade other countries, they must be delusional to think that question was somehow on the ballot. As for the values thing—well, maybe Bush has a mandate there. But as billions of words of text on this page and others have articulated, “down home values” do not necessarily translate into support for packing the courts with pro-life judges...
More than 80 percent of the school’s faculty voted by secret ballot to confirm Goldsmith’s tenure appointment in the spring, and longtime Harvard Law professors have rallied to defend their new colleague as well as to praise his academic credentials...
...course of five weeks, the idea for a renewable energy fee went from what Pasternack called a “pipe dream” to a ballot item that won by a 64-point margin...
...heart of the problem is the specific nature of the electronic balloting used by the council in its elections. Unlike with traditional paper ballots, where abstention at the polls is as simple as spoiling one’s ballot (by voting for every candidate for every position, or by drawing pretty pictures as opposed to casting a vote), the electronic system refuses to accept any form that has not been completed properly. Any attempt to submit a blank ballot is met by an insensitive JavaScript dialog box, which ungraciously informs the would-be abstainer that his effort to refrain from...
...isn’t just accuracy that gets lost when voters are deprived of their ability to abstain; when campus-wide referenda and presidential/vice-presidential elections are conducted on the same electronic ballot, a voter who may want to abstain from voting on the question of their student government leadership, but who feels strongly about one or more of the referendum questions, is unable to cast a vote on the latter while declining to participate in the former. It isn’t hard to imagine, for instance, that a given student might feel that the distinction between renewable and exhaustible...