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...seats. The process was even more disturbing than the lopsided results. The state-controlled media, along with the police, courts and other elements of the government machinery, ensured that the final product would fulfill Putin’s desires and expectations. There is at least one video showing ballot boxes being crammed. The results, if they tell us anything at all, are only a washed out picture of reality. After cracking down on NGOs, journalists, and opposition parties, Putin removed all doubt about his fondness for fraud when he barred international monitors from entering the country. Many Russian people trust...
...interspersed jokes with serious rhetoric, drawing both thunderous laughter and applause. “A year from now all of you will go to polling places,” he said. “Here is the good news: the name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot.” To laughter, he added, “the name of my cousin, Dick Cheney, will not be on the ballot.” The vice president and Obama are eighth cousins. Obama, Illinois’ junior senator, addressed the audience on the hot-button issues of healthcare...
...voter’s first-choice candidate is eliminated, that vote is transferred to the second choice ranked on the ballot, ensuring that the vote will still influence the election...
...ballots were cast, representing 55% of the student body » 47% of ballots were cast within the first 24 hours of voting . » Voters ranked an average of 3.54 tickets on their ballot, out of 6 eligible tickets. » The winning candidate (Petersen-Sundquist) had just 37% (1,314/3,519) of first-place votes, but achieved 54% (1710/3139) of the final redistributed votes under the instant-runoff system » 3 voters ranked “no candidate” as their first choice and a real candidate as their second choice. » Petersen-Sundquist’s campaign Facebook group...
...This week, Sundquist will pay at the ballot box if undergraduates view his year as vice president negatively or if any mistakes he makes on the trail become public. Either circumstance could pave the way for an outsider to grab the UC’s top position...