Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul E. Tsongas' announcement last month that he would not seek re-election has caused a scramble among prominent Massachusetts Democrats hoping to succeed him. Today's caucuses are the first political test for those who want to assume his Senate seat. To get a spot on the primary ballot, a candidate must be supported by 15 percent of the convention delegates...
Until then, all contestants will be scrambling to gain enough delegate support to earn a spot on the primary ballot...
Student organizations at Harvard and nationally have taken steps to encourage voter registration and turnout. Members of the Student Advisory Committee for the Institute of Politics (IOP) have planned a convention-style evening for Tuesday at 7 p.m. Students who come can arrange for an absentee ballot application from their home state, and learn about some of the issues in the 1984 Presidential campaign. The following weekend, a National Student Conference on Voter Registration will be held at Harvard...
...When Westerners speak of a democracy," he says, "they think of specific structures: a legislature or parliament, elections conducted by secret ballot, certain formalities of debate - in short, the rituals that were bequeathed to the ex-colonies in the hope they would remain house-trained." Soyinka argues that "the veneer of democracy" bestowed by the former colonial powers "has badly peeled." Its worst manifestation, in his view: the one-party states that have too often become en trenched civilian dictatorships...
...some states candidates were represented directly on the ballot, while elsewhere only delegates were listed; in some, primary voting was open to all state citizens, in others only to those with declared party affiliation. Moreover, the arbitrary order of primary dates and the duration of the process gave disproportionate influence to small states with early contests, while large and populous states like California often found the race over by the time their turn came...