Word: ballots
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...even though half of those polled had never seen one of his commercials. Checchi was stuck in second place, with 17%, and Harman dropped from first to third, with 11%. The percentages are low because the June 2 primary is open to all voters; the Democrats will share the ballot with the G.O.P. candidate, state attorney general Dan Lungren, who is running virtually unopposed (and took 27% in the poll). To win the Democratic nomination, a candidate needs only about 25% of the vote...
...models and other celebrities' pictures do anything for national morale, has started a campaign of his own--for Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf. And Stern and friends are succeeding: Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf, is so popular that he has gone from write in to actually being on the ballot. Not to mention the fact that he leads the next contender, Leonardo DiCaprio, by 153,872 votes...
...looks "articulate, very bright and quite authoritative," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "His standing has definitely improved as he remained unfazed throughout the verbal hammering he's faced." Yeltsin's baby-faced protégé won easily in today's Duma vote after a secret ballot allowed a number of Communists and other opposition members to quietly defect in order to avoid the dissolution of the legislature and new elections...
...Overseers as a body feel that the current procedure is fair," she says. "[Petition candidates] have just as much space in the ballot and their pictures are there. They are not slighted in any way--they are just separately identified...
...boils down to procedure: If Russia's parliament conducts a crucial vote on Friday by secret ballot, it'll be business as usual, says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. If deputies are asked to vote openly, the likely outcome will be dissolution of the legislature and new elections. The Communist-led opposition is committed to a third rejection of Boris Yeltsin's youthful nominee for prime minister, Sergei Kiriyenko, which would force Yeltsin to close down the Duma and hold new elections. "Despite their fierce public resolve, a secret vote will allow those in the opposition whose votes...