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MEANWHILE IN SERBIA ... Every Vote a Winner Poll-weary Serbs, whose efforts to elect a new President have been thwarted three times in the past 15 months due to low voter participation, can finally see light at the bottom of the ballot box. Parliamentarians got round the 50% turnout threshold by simply abolishing it, paving the way for a new election as early as this month...
...it’s rather careless that you’ve defined the Oscars by the Big Six; admittedly those are the only categories that most viewers really care about, but that hardly diminishes the relevance the rest of the awards. There are some exciting races lower on the ballot, and our role as critics is to draw attention to the artistry beneath the household name-recognition...
...flaws of our current electoral system is that ballot access laws are so different across the country,” he said...
Schade said that the biggest obstacle Nader faces is getting on the ballot. Yesterday in Washington, D.C., Nader pledged to run a 50-state campaign...
...Colorado, for example, Nader will get on that ballot by paying $500, while in Texas, Nader will have 60 days to collect 65,000 signatures from people who do not vote in Texas’ March 9 Democratic and Republican primaries...