Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Albert Makashov and Aman-geldy Tuleyev -- tried without success to get the vote postponed until the fall. But such problems in no way diminished the fact that for the first time in history, Russians will be able to choose their leader in a democratic ballot...
...that end, San Diego has a grass-roots political organization with 5,000 dues-paying members that calls itself Prevent Los Angelization Now! It is collecting signatures for a ballot initiative to impose a comprehensive "managed growth" plan on San Diego's city government. On the strength of polls showing that as many as 80% of voters favor slower growth, organizer Peter Navarro, a public-policy professor at the University of California at Irvine, believes that a new political alliance is forming that confounds old party lines...
...Months before the referendum, the president of the student government informed Rudenstine of the upcoming vote. Rudenstine voiced no objections; indeed, he and university counsel met several more times with student government representatives in the months prior to the referendum. Meanwhile, hundreds of students organized in anticipation of the ballot...
...voted, that is only 61% of those who could have done so. There is also the question of the almost Brezhnev-level statistics from the Central Asian Republics -- all of them above 90% approval, with Turkmenistan hitting 98% -- which hint at possible vote fraud. There have been accusations of ballot tampering in some republics...
...resisters, it drew bitter complaints from hundreds of angry convention managers and tourists. The controversial tactic seems to be having some effect. Faced with the possible loss of the Super Bowl in 1993, the Arizona legislature last week agreed to put the King holiday back on the election ballot...