Word: ballots
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...Candidates did spend less than in the last election...I've spent less than in the last two elections," Myers said. In addition to recession, Myers attributes a tightening of other candidates' purse strings to a smaller ballot. He also said he spent less this election because he "had a clearer sense this time of what [he] wanted to focus...
Candidates win their seats by accumulating enough votes to reach a quota determined by a complicated formula. Once candidates reach a quota, their surplus votes are redistributed to the other candidates on the ballot...
Democratic electorates tend to bounce strong leaders out of office when they become overbearing. Even national heroes like Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle felt the parting sting of popular rejection at the ballot box. Last week it was the turn of Turkey's President Turgut Ozal, who is sometimes known to his citizenry as "the Sultan" for his imperious ways. Although Ozal's presidential term runs until 1996, his ruling Motherland Party received only about 24% of the vote, leaving the President without a majority in Parliament. The outlook, as the winners began to negotiate with other parties about...
...weekend has been chaotic. But at least emigre businessman Stanislaw Tyminski, founder of Party X, won't be there to kick the electorate around anymore. Earlier this month he flew home to Canada, disheartened because Party X, which claims 4 million supporters, was denied a place on the national ballot on account of signatures on its qualifying petitions that were discovered to be false...
However, I do not believe that the Undergraduate Council is responsible for all of the failings in the election process; the election was also mishandled by the undergraduates in general. The vast majority of the Harvard student body either did not cast a ballot, or treated the election as little more than a joke. I do not wish to criticize those students that did vote, nor those who had some legitimate reason for not voting. Unfortunately, these students are in the minority...