Word: balloting
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...million eligible voters. Although the FIS is still party non grata, Zeroual has agreed to allow opposition from moderate fundamentalist parties as long as they removed Islamic references from their names and platforms and renounced violence. TIME's Scot MacLeod reports that while international monitors agree that outright ballot fraud was relatively absent, to most Algerians, the outcome was rigged from the start since Zeroual party relied on government patronage and control of television to boost its chances...
...Texas A&M, the leading schools in the state system, and may result in an even greater drop-off in enrollment, since financial aid must also now be color-blind. In California's case, the impetus for revising its university admissions policies is Proposition 209, the successful 1996 ballot initiative. The changes implemented by the law schools this year won't apply to undergraduates until...
...percent of the vote, with the Socialists, bolstered by a broad leftist coalition, taking 40.6 percent. To keep their jobs, conservatives need not only to woo the Le Pen crowd but convince the 32 percent of eligible voters who sat out the first round to get to the ballot boxes. And leave the produce at home...
Cantabrigians tend to vote their pocket-books, but no economic plan is on the ballot. And people like contested elections, but this year's race is a shoo...
...mechanics behind the election favors the two-party system. The voting system, called "proportional representation," allows voters to rank their candidates from one to nine according to their preference. After one candidate is elected, his or her ballots are transferred to the next candidate listed on the ballot...