Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts attorney general's office is conducting an inquiry into Harvard's handling of last spring's Board of Overseers election in response to complaints that the University unfairly electioneered against pro-divestment candidates and tampered with the ballot count, officials in the state office said this week...
...opponents formed a coalition, Californians United Committee Against Proposition 63, and a political-action committee, which hopes to raise $1 million to fight the initiative. The proponents have already raised $550,000, and they say they will counter any blitz from the opposition. The initiative, which got on the ballot with more than 1 million signatures, is a good bet to pass. If so, California would join six other states (Nebraska, Illinois, Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and Georgia) that have English as an official language. Similar English-only efforts are already under way in 15 other states, including Florida, New York...
...more than 18 months the campaign has raged amid a blizzard of contending hype, hoopla and hard sell. Tons of campaign literature have been mailed, endless hours of television commercials broadcast, hundreds of millions of dollars of campaign funds spent. Accusations of lying, ballot stealing and electoral tampering have abounded. But already last week, well before the Sept. 1 deadline when the vast majority of some 95 million eligible telephone subscribers are to choose a supplier of long-distance telephone services, the outcome of the Great Long-Distance Telephone Election was already clear. The most elaborate competitive exercise...
Inevitably, with 10,000 candidates on the ballot, many more running as write-ins, and no firm indication of which belonged in whose camp, the presidential contenders as well as the voters grew confused. In some cases Bush and Kemp mailings touted the same candidates. For that matter, many of the delegates have not made up their own minds even unofficially. Says Detroit Attorney Gerald Rosen: "I've talked with so many delegates who have said, 'I'm for Robertson and Kemp' or 'I'm for Bush and Dole...
...ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) were declared victors in 80 out of 82 statewide contests. Supporters of Mexico's conservative opposition group, the National Action Party, claim that the P.R.I., which in 57 years has never lost a gubernatorial or presidential election, engaged in large-scale vote switching and ballot fraud to avoid an embarrassing loss in Chihuahua...