Word: balloting
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...very honored," Cabana said yesterday. "My initials are the same as Peter Cahn's and I'm right next to him [on the ballot] so I think people just got confused...
Maddox, who is running for the Cambridge School Committee, is currently collecting signatures to put a referendum on the state-wide ballot in 1996 which would raise the minimum age in the Bay State to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21 and would force cigarettes to be nicotine-free...
...order to put an initiative on the ballot, organizers need to collect 65,000 signatures. This process is costly and can take a lot of time, according to Maddox...
...Democracies, and Iraqis are officially scratching their heads over whether they will, in fact, cast their votes on Sunday for Most Beneficent Leader, Savior and President Saddam Hussein. Posters plastered across Baghdad suggest that it wouldn't be a bad idea to support the only candidate on the ballot in the national referendum. ("Life is meaningless without the leader," reads one specimen.) Iraqi officials, however, are outraged that the international community has dismissed the event as a sham. A Ministry of Information statement today, for example, said truculent remarks by State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns "show the level of nervousness...
Finally, the benefits of such a system are too vast to ignore. Traditionally, simply counting ballots for council elections meant an entire weekend of work for several people. Not only were members of the election commission required to spend hours simply tabulating ballots, they had to do so using a constitutionally required complex system called the "Hare proportional system." In an electronic system, ballot collection and tabulating is simple; it's what computers do best. Additionally, one may easily produce audits of computer-tabulated votes to appease disgruntled losing candidates...