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...convinced that the money spent this time of year is well worth it. All it takes to run for UC President and Vice-President is 150 student signatures. Seven pairs of students successfully accomplished that task to earn the right to have their names on the ballot this year (one ticket, Omar A. Musa ’08 and Daniel Ross-Rieder ’08, have since dropped out of the race). Given that students are free to sign multiple petitions, this is not a particularly high bar. Nor should it be. The UC Presidential/Vice Presidential race should...
Given the $400 campaign budget and the ruckus that engulfs the campus every December, one might expect that becoming a candidate for the Undergraduate Council (UC) presidency is a difficult and painstaking process. But all it takes to get on the ballot is to find 150 people to sign their names and write down their e-mail addresses—it doesn’t even matter if the students have signed another candidate’s petition. Finding signatories is something most candidates do in an hour...
Though down by almost 25,000 votes, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi refused to concede to Romano Prodi after April's elections. Berlusconi pointed to five ballot boxes discarded in Roman streets as evidence of error. After the results were upheld, he vowed to make Prodi's government "fall as quickly as possible." For the record, Prodi is still in charge...
...this is paying off where elected officials feel it most--at the ballot box. School-board members who are pro-guidelines keep getting re-elected. Two years ago, when Meredith's lawyer, Teddy Gordon, ran for the school board, promising a return to neighborhood schools, he came in--as guideline advocates like to point out-- dead last. "I don't care if my children go to school on the moon as long as they are getting a good education," says Ronald Thomas, who lives downtown and sends his three children to school on a half-hour bus ride...
...popular vote, the final hurdle before becoming law. However, because the measure would most likely have the support of 50 legislators, opponents have recessed the legislative session before the amendment could be voted on so as to prevent it from getting on the ballot. The motion to recess early, which needed the backing of a majority of legislators to pass, received 109 votes, including those of Cambridge’s three legislators. The move came as no surprise to Robert Winters, editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal and an instructor at the Extension School. “I think they?...