Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidates for the top jobs in the United States engaged in refined, controlled debates that resembled afternoon talk shows. The Canadian candidates sat only inches away from each other and battled it out with plenty of raised voices. In the United States, four main parties appeared on the ballot; only two, to no one's surprise, had enough votes to gain seats in the House. In Canada, six parties gained seats and three split the bulk of the votes...
Pitkin says the system is especially fair because "almost every ballot ends up being counted for a candidate the voter favors...
Reyes' "designated teller," an impartial observer of the ballot counting to which each candidate is entitled according to last spring's constitution, was his roommate, Robert R. Zamacona...
...Washington is relatively lax compared to other states. At least I can mail my ballot myself, anytime until election day. A friend from Memphis had to have her ballot signed by someone in the post office before she could mail it off. And on the one occasion that my roommate filed for an absentee ballot (a friend of the family was running for a local position) she discovered at the last minute that it actually had to be received by election day. This led to a complicated maneuver in which Jeanne's brother hand-delivered a Federal Express package...
...election results were in, she and Nawaz Sharif began negotiations to win the support of regional splinter parties as well as independents, who garnered the balance of Assembly seats. Both claimed they had the backing to form a government when the Assembly convenes for a secret parliamentary leadership ballot Oct. 19. But Bhutto was widely seen as having the edge...