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...noticed the gaping hole that remained when the Council voted on the constitutional amendment. For upon its passage, the UC was left with no provision for dealing with bylaw changes. (It passed by a vote of 31-0, with four members abstaining, and the rest not casting any ballot.)Therefore, when the Council moved to vote on 62.35, confusion abounded among most council members over how many votes were needed for the bill’s passage: a majority or two-thirds? The parliamentarian, Greenfield, claimed that since any mention of bylaws requirements had been removed from the previously passed...
...Pollsters point out that fewer than 40% of the city's registered voters cast ballots, either in New Orleans, by absentee ballot, or at one of the 10 satellite polling stations set up around the state. "It was by no means a historic election with people pouring back into the city to choose the leader who's going to bring them out of the wilderness," said independent pollster Bernie Pinsonat, who runs Southern Media & Opinion Research in the Louisiana capital. "Maybe they're not coming back. Maybe they don't see any hope. Maybe they're literally on the verge...
...Britain hope that the man chosen will be current deputy president Adel Abdul-Mahdi of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), who was edged out by a single vote in the Shi'ite bloc's internal ballot that nominated Jaafari. But if Jaafari's backers don't get to have their man, there are reasons to expect that Abdul-Mahdi's won't gets theirs, either...
Think globally, act locally. That's the message as more and more communities turn to nonbinding ballot initiatives to chime in on national and foreign policy. In Wisconsin last week, residents of 24 counties passed resolutions calling for U.S. troops to pull out of Iraq, joining dozens of towns in Vermont that have passed similar measures. Seven states--Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana and Vermont--and nearly 400 counties have voted either to criticize or ignore the Patriot Act. Come November, voters in localities across the U.S. will be asked to say yea or nay to affirmative action, abortion...
...come from state and federal governments. "Referendums are the protest vehicle for the new century," says Elizabeth Garrett, director of U.S.C.'s Initiative and Referendum Institute. "People are dissatisfied with federal leadership, and voting is the best way they know to voice it." Lawmakers rarely take heed of such ballot measures, but maybe they should. The initiatives bring voters to the polls--turnout in Baraboo, Wis., tripled this election cycle. "More votes," says Garrett, "is a message politicians on every level understand...