Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sixth series of questions, designed to gaugestudent opinion on the state of lighting in thehouses, will be placed on the ballot. The councilmade this addition last night by a vote of 24-13,with two abstentions...
...couple, whose newborn baby had died in the night, voted as they wept together. We scrubbed up and took ballot papers to a woman on the operating table having a caeserian section. We stood by as voters straight from operations, from giving birth to babies, from sitting beside deathbeds, voted because it mattered and was real to them...
...vast numbers of people who turned out to vote that Wednesday. The voting station at which I was deployed expected less than 3,000 voters over both days, yet in fact nearly 5,000 votes were cast that first day alone. At 7:15 p.m. we ran out of ballot papers. Since the polling stations had originally been scheduled to close at 7 p.m., the voters waiting outside refused to believe we had actually run out. It was too much of a coincidence. We must have selfishly hidden the papers so that we could go home. Hence the many very...
Overnight millions of ballot papers were printed, but an hour before opening, none had arrived at our station. So there we were at 6:30 in the morning walking down the kilometer-long queue which had already formed asking very patient voters to be even more patient. By the end of that second day the election officers had the voting procedure down to a fine art with an average of 100 people through every ten minutes. I spent most of my time doing voter education, assisting sightimpaired voters, explaining the difference between the national and provincial ballots and keeping tabs...
...confident that the election process that I saw was free and fair. I am not so sure about the rest of the country. Natal/KwaZulu was particularly plagued by problems--polling stations opened late or not at all. Ballot boxes were not properly sealed. Ballot papers did not arrive...