Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing to be trained (rather haphazardly) by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and quite another to find yourself confronted by 500 angry voters threatening to hold you hostage until more ballot papers arrive! Ah yes, the trials and tribulations of an election monitor...but let me start at the beginning...
...first day of the elections was a special voting day for those in hospitals, old age homes and prisons. As a monitor, I was assigned to a mobile voting station which took ballot papers, ballot boxes and cardboard ballot booths to voters in their hospital beds. It was one of the most moving experiences of my life...
...petition, or some compromise version ofit, passes at the convention, it will be certifiedfor inclusion on the state ballot in November...
...petition is not endorsed by theconstitutional convention, however, the HomeownersCoalition will be required to collect anadditional 12,000 signatures by late June in orderto get the issue on the state ballot...
...boycott of South Africa's first all-race elections this week. In return, Buthelezi secured a guarantee that the largely ceremonial Zulu monarchy will be allowed to continue and that remaining constitutional differences on the powers of regions will be mediated internationally after the elections. Hopes for a peaceful ballot dimmed over the weekend when two African National Congress workers were killed and party headquarters in Johannesburg were devastated by a bomb...