Word: ballots
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...Board of Overseers is the next best thing. But that often means schmoozing the Harvard Alumni Association sufficiently (read: donating a lot of cash or getting elected to high public office) to get onto its slate. Otherwise, you can try collecting the 279 petition signatures needed for a ballot spot--a spot plainly designated as not HAA-approved...
...David A. Aronberg '93, a Currier House resident, is elected chair of the Undergraduate Council by secret ballot. Aronberg, formally the council's vice-chair, outpolls Steven A. Kalkanis '93 of Quincy House...
...Clinton's first challenge is to cling fast to black voters, who are among the Democratic Party's most loyal followers but who have turned out in far lower numbers this year than in 1988, when Jesse Jackson was on the primary ballot. Clinton will almost certainly reinforce his appeal to blacks more than he might otherwise have intended...
BRAVING A SWELTERING SPRING SUN, 2,000 ROSS Perot zealots lugged 90 cardboard boxes stuffed with signed petitions up the lawn to the Texas Capitol last week in an effort to put the billionaire on the state's presidential ballot. This well-scripted media spectacle, festooned with flapping flags, balloons and bunting, marked the unofficial unannouncement of the uncandidate. In only nine weeks, Perot, who has qualified for four other state ballots, collected more than 200,000 signatures in Texas -- four times what he needed -- and that's a chilling omen for Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton...
That seemed entirely possible. A group of international election observers reported that some poll officials were too drunk to keep track of voters, ballot boxes were being opened without authorization, and threats and bribery were widespread. The glacial vote count continues this week. The outgoing Congress, which is tabulating the votes for President and Vice President, will eventually announce the winners...