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This proposal is particularly important given the lack of participation in school committee elections, says city councillor Jim Braude. Only 8 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in the most recent election, Barrios says...
...suggests that changing the ballot would be a simple matter of deleting the word "citizen" from the school committee ballot...
Stealing an election in Serbia isn't easy, even for a felon as seasoned as Slobodan Milosevic - and that makes the Serb strongman more likely to play for time, or even start another war somewhere as an excuse to hang on to power. As results poured in Monday from ballot boxes from all over what remains of Yugoslavia, the bitter winter of 1996-97 may be weighing heavily on Milosevic's mind. Weeks of massive street demonstrations in Belgrade had forced him, early in 1997, to concede city hall to the opposition party chosen by the voters...
...therefore opt for a runoff election, preferring to suppress some of his opponent's vote tally rather than inflate his own so that neither man registers more than 49 percent. Milosevic, also, is far from lacking in the requisite cynicism required to simply use opposition charges of widespread ballot fraud as an excuse to call another election. And if he does play for time, the temptation may prove overwhelming to distract the electorate by fomenting another confrontation with NATO, either in Kosovo or Montenegro...
...Voters in nearly every state will see at least four choices on their ballots, not two. To gain ballot status in most states, a candidate must be placed on the ballot by petitioning thousands of state voters. The process alone should be enough to earn a candidate the right to participate in the debates...