Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decorous motions of a farming community, miles from any city, continued. And the splendid flat landscape of fields, thickets and wildlife was intact on all sides-briefly tolerant of the occasional trailer or other frail platform of human hope. Jimmy flew here election dawn to cast his own ballot, already informed of imminent failure; and in a greeting to his home-town supporters at the depot, the break in his voice seemed an understandable response to their continued loyalty in the face of so much bafflement, so many craven defections-"I've tried to honor my commitment...
...independence from Britain in 1966, Burnham, an Oxford-trained lawyer, has often been accused of rigging his own election-day heroics. Critics claim that in 1973 he padded his first post-independence victory with the votes of 70,000 dead or nonexisting people. Guyana's army seized the ballot boxes after initial returns seemed to be turning against Burnham. When the results were announced a day later, he had won a satisfying two-thirds majority...
...activists have been killed in the past year, including one of the group's leaders, Historian Walter Rodney, 38. W.P.A. members blame the deaths on Burnham sympathizers and have urged Guyanese to boycott this week's vote. Since the government has excluded the new group from the ballot, Burnham's supporters are confident of a landslide victory. "These elections are not really for us," a member of the government told a Western diplomat last week. "They...
Dymally added that he's been involved with elections for 20 years and the only contest he ever lost was one where the public could not rely on a sample ballot. "You do all the work for a little ol' lady, hand her a sample ballot all filled out with a 'Democrat' signed at the bottom, and she goes in and votes...
...them hard unless I've looked at them eyeball to eyeball and shaken their hands," says Michel. Says Vander Jagt: "I count a vote hard when he looks you in the eye." The battle will end next week when House Republicans meet eyeball to eyeball for a secret ballot...