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...very honored," Cabana said yesterday. "My initials are the same as Peter Cahn's and I'm right next to him [on the ballot] so I think people just got confused...
...Democracies, and Iraqis are officially scratching their heads over whether they will, in fact, cast their votes on Sunday for Most Beneficent Leader, Savior and President Saddam Hussein. Posters plastered across Baghdad suggest that it wouldn't be a bad idea to support the only candidate on the ballot in the national referendum. ("Life is meaningless without the leader," reads one specimen.) Iraqi officials, however, are outraged that the international community has dismissed the event as a sham. A Ministry of Information statement today, for example, said truculent remarks by State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns "show the level of nervousness...
Popular elections in the late 19th century--a period well known for its political machines and corruption--faced an unusual problem. A large number of eligible voters were illiterate; they simply could not read the ballots. Corrupt party members often attempted to exploit this illiteracy by disguising their ballot to look like the other party's ballot. For example, Democrats would print ballots with pictures of Abraham Lincoln, so those unsuspecting and illiterate might suppose that they were voting Republican...
Finally, the benefits of such a system are too vast to ignore. Traditionally, simply counting ballots for council elections meant an entire weekend of work for several people. Not only were members of the election commission required to spend hours simply tabulating ballots, they had to do so using a constitutionally required complex system called the "Hare proportional system." In an electronic system, ballot collection and tabulating is simple; it's what computers do best. Additionally, one may easily produce audits of computer-tabulated votes to appease disgruntled losing candidates...
Elections in Cambridge are conducted under a unique proportional representation system, which allows citizens to rank their choice of candidates, and then redistributes votes to the next candidate marked on the ballot once candidates reach a quota of approximately 10 percent of the ballots cast...