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...election also gave a boost to efforts to use the Internet as a ballot box, to avoid the crippling challenge of trying to accurately count, or recount, ballots that have been clumsily cast. Elsewhere, such options may emerge as a means of overcoming the kinds of bullying tactics that can mar an election. Spain, for example, may allow voters in the troubled Basque region to cast their ballots over the Net from home to bypass intimidation from separatists...
Something rather remarkable took place in italy last week: an election that seemed to grip the attention of a whole nation. Voter turnout was so unexpectedly high - more than 80% of those entitled to cast a ballot did so - that the authorities were unable to cope with the crowds, some of whom wrecked polling stations in their rage. Filipinos, too, have behaved of late as if politics still matters - maybe too much so. The campaign before the recent congressional and local elections was marred by widespread violence, which claimed the lives of around 60 people...
...serve as an effective voice for student interests on campus. Unfortunately, it also outlined the barriers the council has yet to overcome. The membership of the council's Student Affairs Committee (SAC), which nominated candidates for the Katz Committee, was not available online. The votes were conducted by secret ballot. And the 25-5 council-wide vote to confirm the selections was unrecorded-so students won't necessarily know whether their representatives were among the five dissenters (or the 25 members who voted in favor...
...recognize the concern that open ballots might create embarrassing situations for candidates. Surely some candidates would prefer that their selection be conducted by secret ballot. But students who volunteer for positions of public service necessarily open themselves to public scrutiny and evaluation. A concern for their feelings should not prevent the council from serving its constituency...
...council's work is done within a small community, recorded voting might also create difficult decisions for council members who would be passing judgment on their friends or acquaintances. But for every representative who is unwilling to make a public vote against a friend, another might use the secret ballot to hide any favors to close acquaintances. A public record would also help convince representatives voting on their friends to recuse themselves from the decision. As Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Class of 1877, noted, "Sunshine is the best disinfectant...