Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skeptical majority of his Executive Branch audience that they should not give up too soon on support for the unobstructed democratic process in the Philippines. The normally terse Senator spoke movingly of brave souls like an ordinary Filipino housewife who confronted armed thugs in order to defend her ballot. He urged the White House not to resign itself to a Marcos victory too quickly...
Last week's election of representatives from Dudley House was contested. Two candidates--who eventually emerged victorious--had submitted their position papers late. That fact is debated by no one. The council by-laws state that a candidate cannot be allowed on the ballot if his/her position papers are not submitted by the set deadline. The only way that a candidate can be allowed on the ballot is if the vice-chair brings the matter to the attention of the council and the council then agrees to suspend the by-laws for that particular case. Vice-Chair Steve Smith took...
Upon any sort of mature reflection, one would conclude that the only fair thing to do would be to hold the election again, with the two disputed candidates eliminated from the ballot. Why? (1) Because they were illegally entered, and (2) because the content of the position papers of the legally-entered candidates could very easily have been affected had the candidates been aware of the presence of others in the race. The council finally decided to vote on whether or not hold new elections. Even this measure was ridiculously weak, since it allowed the two illegal candidates to appear...
There was only one clear-cut thing about the election ritual that unfolded at some 90,000 polling stations around the Philippines. Sporadically at first, then with increasing blatancy, the long-awaited exercise was marred by unsettling levels of violence, fraud, vote buying and ballot theft. More than a day after the polls closed, the official vote count by the Marcos-dominated Commission on Elections (COMELEC) had slowed to a crawl. Communications linking that effort to a parallel, informal vote count by a volunteer organization known as the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) had been severed. In many...
Kerry, a member of a U.S. team led by Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) that observed last Friday's election said, the voting was marred payoffs, violence and ballot rigging...