Word: balloting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hrones also objected to the wording of the ballot, which placed the petition candidates separately at the bottom of the ballot--making alums less likely to vote for him, he said. A petition candidate is one who gets on the ballot by collecting signatures from one percent of voting alums--about 300 signatures...
Most candidates get on the ballot when they are selected in an extensive review process by the Nominating Committee of the Alumni Association...
This year eight ballot candidates were selected by the Alumni Association. Two, including Hrones, ran by petition...
Rejectionists are taking their second shot at Northern Ireland's peace agreement today after having failed to stop it in May's referendum. Dissident Republicans signaled their intentions yesterday by detonating a car bomb near a police station in Newtownhamilton, but anti-agreement Unionists are relying on the ballot rather than the bullet. Protestant hardliners led by Reverend Ian Paisley hope they can win enough seats in today's election for the new Northern Ireland Assembly to gum up the works. "They say they're out to defend the Union," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "But that...
...hardly any furniture. "It's pretty sloppy," he offers. But Unz, 37, does have a hobby: attempting to turn public policy upside down. Over the past eight months, the multimillionaire Silicon Valley software entrepreneur has spent $1.2 million--more than half of it his own money--to pass a ballot initiative that would all but abolish bilingual education in California...