Word: ballots
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...said the IOP, with help from the Environmental Action Committee (EAC), has tabled at the upperclass houses and the Harvard Union for the past couple of weeks to inform students how to register or obtain an absentee ballot...
...Wednesday, students will rank five candidates from the field on the ballot. It is likely that a student will not know five candidates personally, and end up voting for at least one on the basis of name recognition. If simple name recognition could gain even the lowest of the five votes on the majority of ballots for a candidate, his or her election would be almost inevitable. Thus, a voter could unknowingly undermine his or her own candidate's chances by filling in all the blanks on the ballot...
...Brazil's Chamber of Deputies. But last week the President suffered what might have been the decisive blow. After a nine-hour televised hearing, Brazil's Supreme Court ruled that the chamber had every right to schedule the vote for this week and to make it a "nominal" ballot -- meaning that Deputies will have to declare themselves by name for or against. Though it is still possible that Collor will pull some last-second surprise, the odds are that the required two-thirds of the 503 Deputies will vote, possibly Tuesday, to put Collor on trial, and that by week...
...maneuvering weren't complicated enough, Ross Perot rejoined the game again last week, making an appearance on NBC's Today show to reaffirm his unhappiness over both Bush's and Clinton's economic plans. With Arizona becoming the 50th state ready to put the Texas billionaire on the November ballot, Perot appeared on the edge of re-entering the race. "I'm trapped," he told his TV audience last Friday. "They won't sell ((TV airtime)) to me unless I declare as a candidate. So I may be the first guy in history that had to declare as a candidate...
...today's political headlines into tonight's routines. For instance: the long-running Clinton-Gore road tour has gone sour since the Fab Foursome started getting on each other's nerves. Bill keeps playing that darned sax, and Hillary won't quit with the cookies. Tables are outfitted with ballot boxes, and every night the audience votes for President. At last count, Clinton had won 68 of 70 ballots...