Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote score card. Each must decide which of the 22 state presidential-preference primaries to enter and how much to spend out of a set budget in order to win. At the convention, players jockey for state votes by offering ambassadorships, Cabinet posts or even money to rivals, then ballot to select a candidate. Next comes the election and finally, for advanced players, there are a whole new set of rules that allow them to toy with hypothetical scenarios that can pit Abraham Lincoln, for instance, against George Wallace. Another one: what if Nixon were to decline renomination...
...world center of this new order is on Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel, as designated by Baha'u'llah himself. It is the seat of the supreme administrative body, the Universal House of Justice, whose nine members are elected without nominations and by secret ballot by delegates from the entire Baha'i world. Similar institutions exist on a national level in some 101 countries and territories and on a local level in thousands of communities, including Cambridge. Baha'is believe that as present-day institutions prove to be outgrown by man's evolving needs and crumble of their own unbalanced...
...Total Control. Since the law offered no provisions for casting a no vote in a one-way contest, Thieu advised voters that they could mutilate their ballots or put empty envelopes in the ballot box to express their rejection of him. But voters who might want to do as Thieu suggested were required to drop the unused ballot on the floor, an action that could easily be observed-and remembered-by Thieu-appointed officials...
...disagree. In telling contrast to the cheering crowd in the Plaza de Oriente, slightly more than half the eligible voters turned out for last week's election to the Cortes, or parliament. Only a fifth of the seats in the largely rubber-stamp assembly are filled by direct ballot, and half the 230 candidates already held government posts or were dependent upon the regime for their jobs...
...long as "order and security" were preserved, Thieu seemed little concerned about other forms of opposition. He told voters that they could register a vote of "no confidence" in him by mutilating their ballot or dropping an empty envelope into the ballot box. He also made no effort to head off an embarrassing vote by the usually tractable South Vietnamese Senate. Calling the one-man race a "threat to the country," the Senate passed a resolution by a vote of 28 to 3, with 28 abstentions, urging Thieu to resign and turn the government over to the Senate Speaker...