Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began forming shortly before 7 a.m. and grew steadily longer as the sun rose higher. The wait was an inconvenience for many who were taking time off from work or household duties to vote. Still, the turnout at some polling stations was so heavy that officials ran out of ballots before closing time. For many Filipinos there was something special about casting a ballot for their nation's proposed new constitution, a sense of return to the spirit of People Power nearly a year before. Michael O. Bautista, a retired carpenter, queued up at a schoolhouse in the city...
...girl watching, perfection is a 10. In bowling, a perfect score is 300. In a perfect baseball game, no one gets on base. Last week Communist Albania accomplished an astonishing record: almost perfect parliamentary elections. Every one of the country's 1,830,653 registered voters cast a ballot, and all candidates selected by the Albanian Labor Party won 100% of the votes counted. But alas, a single ballot was declared invalid by officials. Wait till next year...
ELECTIONS IN the Soviet Union? I didn't believe it either, at first. It didn't make sense. Think of all the extra ink they'll have to use putting two names on the ballot instead of one. But it's true. Soviet Russia's three favorite things--food and shoes--are about to be joined by another fab fave: democracy...
...divestment candidates for Harvard's Board of Overseers formally petition to be placed on the ballot today, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office is continuing its investigation into the University's handling of last year's overseers election, officials said yesterday...
...remedy the situation, Gorbachev called on the party to approve a series of reforms that could bring about significant changes in the Soviet system. He proposed that local, republic-level and perhaps even national Communist Party officials be chosen from slates of more than one candidate and by secret ballot. He also suggested the election of factory managers by their workers. At the same time, Gorbachev made it clear that any such changes would not be permitted to interfere with strict Communist Party control, which he said will remain "unshakable." Said he: "The point at issue assuredly...