Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel it is essential that this be changed before someone decides to use it for political reasons." The lawmakers promptly voted to eliminate the ban against women. If passed by both the house and senate, a resolution to amend the constitution accordingly will appear on the November ballot...
...closer to farce. The country's four leading populist candidates refused to run, and less than 10% of Haiti's 3 million voters turned out for the election, which was held amid a boycott called by opposition leaders. Election officials examined each vote before dropping it in the box. Ballot stuffing appeared to be widespread...
...Moines. She will meet precinct Co-Chairwoman Jean Siegrist, and they will check the coffeemaker, open up the doors and wait for their fellow Republicans to arrive. When the greetings are over, they will bring the caucus to order and ask their neighbors to cast the secret ballot that is the crucial straw vote on the presidential candidates. The count will be tallied and then beamed around the world. "It's a pretty amateurish affair," says Mrs. Hoy. "We sort of stumble through it, but it seems to work." The story of these United States...
...packed urban centers uninhabitable. Says Gerald Silver, president of the Homeowners of Encino, Calif.: "We were in favor of progress until we found out what it looks like." This urban claustrophobia is largely a bipartisan phenomenon. In conservative Orange County, Calif., Republicans have joined with liberal Democrats on a ballot initiative to require developers to pay for the impact their projects have on city streets and services. Says Thomas Rogers, a co-sponsor of the measure and a self-described right-winger: "I've got a right to peaceful enjoyment of my property...
After Iowa and New Hampshire, the field narrows drastically, long before voters in larger states can cast a ballot. Most candidates must adopt an identical strategy: labor mightily for an early kill while preparing for an endurance run later. Schedule and rules, far more than issues and message, dominate...