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...recent years, the most important question on the Cambridge ballot has been about rent control. It's a contentious issue, and one that draws Cantabrigians to the polls...
Already, the states are making moves in that direction. Voters in Massachusetts and Arizona last year passed ballot initiatives setting up systems of public financing for state elections. These rules ensure that every candidate with demonstrated popular support will have the funds he or she needs to run a campaign. If the federal government catches on, candidates like Elizabeth Dole who must run without the support of well-heeled donors might get a fair hearing next time...
Only two-fifths of eligible voters cast a ballot in the 1994 federal elections. This apathy is apparent throughout all segments of the American electorate, but is particularly striking among minorities. In the presidential elections of 1992, 64.5 percent of white women and 62.6 percent of white men cast ballots, compared to 56.7 percent and 50.8 percent among blacks respectively, and only 30.9 percent and 26.8 percent respectively among Hispanics. Minorities do not vote because they feel they can achieve little and certainly will not gain political representation...
...while education can prove effective in helping the public to understand the benefits of proportional representation, nothing can serve democracy more than a concrete demonstration of proportional representation's superiority over the deficient legacy that winner-take-all democracy has left our nation. I urge you to cast your ballot come Nov. 2. We, too, are members of the Cambridge community...
...microsuck does it again," said one angry player on the site's bulletin board. Others complained of "ballot stuffing" and "lies, lies, and more lies." But it hardly seems likely Microsoft would so clumsily sabotage the game, especially after fellow techno behemoth IBM proved its might by using its most powerful computer, Deep Blue, to defeat Kasparov in 1997. Nor was the match one for which Kasparov was particularly pumped up, says Taylor. "He was going into it as an experiment to get more people involved in chess. He told me he was expecting a draw... This [botched e-mail...