Word: balloting
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Unlike the other 10 candidates, who were nominated by a committee of alumni, the divestment candidates petitioned to have their names placed on the ballot...
...Boks' letter represents an attempt to tip the election away from the three pro-divestment candidates who gained spots on the ballot by petition and toward their competition, which the University invited to run. Harvard--more accurately Derek Bok--either believes the "Company of Educated Men and Women" need to be told how to exercise their franchise or that Harvard has failed in its educational mission...
After 92% of the ballots had been tallied, conservative former President Joaquin Balaguer, 78, held a slender 35,000-vote lead over Jacobo Majluta, 51, the candidate of the ruling Dominican Revolutionary Party. Then, without explanation, the counters stopped counting. At that point Majluta suddenly declared himself the victor and demanded that two of the three board members be replaced by alternates for allegedly disqualifying thousands of his supporters. Balaguer and the third-place candidate Juan Bosch promptly protested that the two replacements favored Majluta. Later, Balaguer and Majluta agreed to seek the selection of an entirely new board...
...deeper problem, though, may be the country's still unsteady advance toward democracy. President Jorge Blanco admitted that last week's confusion revived "memories of the days when the democratic process was threatened constantly." Indeed, the ballot count after the 1978 presidential election was halted by the military, forcing President Carter to intercede to break the deadlock. The losing candidate then? None other than Joaquin Balaguer...
...gravely concerned over President Derek Bok's statement on Friday, admitting his complicity in the letter sent to all alumni by the Board of Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51. The letter, which was enclosed in the same envelope as the ballot and which was written on official Board stationary, purportedly exists merely to "inform" alums of the unusual nature of this year's Overseers election, an election in which three candidates are actively campaigning in favor of divestiture. Regardless of the letter's lack of ehtics (not to mention the insult to the intelligence of Harvard/Radcliffe alums), I find...