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...Fear of violence may stop many Iraqis going to the polls, but those that do get there will be handed a ballot paper that could prove deeply confusing. It will simply list, in an order decided by lottery, 111 different options, for which the voter can cast one vote. This list comprises 75 parties, 9 coalitions and 27 individuals. It ranges from mega coalitions like the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), comprising the major Shiite religious parties and scores of independents grouped together on a single slate at the discreet behest of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, to individuals who have...
...Very 'Secret' Ballot...
...Case for Democracy and that when it comes to approval from the intelligentsia, the President is more needy than he lets on. Written by an Israeli Cabinet minister and former Soviet dissident, the book argues that true security in the Middle East and the world can come only with ballot boxes. The President has pressed it on his top advisers and is even proselytizing outside his inner circle. "I want you to read a book," Bush told a TIME reporter, interrupting his own version of Sharansky's thesis. "It will give you a sense for what I'm talking about...
...import of the vote [in favor of Ukrainian independence from the disintegrating U.S.S.R.] went beyond the imminent creation of the fifth most populous country in Europe?52 million people, slightly fewer than in France. More broadly, the ballot seems likely to trigger the final dissolution of the Soviet Union ... Even now [the Kremlin government] is only a shell that some diplomats assert fails the test for diplomatic recognition?it does not control the territory it claims. Last week the [Soviet] central bank ran out of cash ... [and] the government may be unable to pay its employees, including the more than...
Gross first publicly announced his opposition to the ballot initiative at an Undergraduate Council meeting on Dec. 5, saying, “I don’t want to get to the point where every good thing becomes a check-off on the termbill...