Word: ballots
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There is even the beginning of grass-roots democracy. With little fanfare or publicity, peasants in villages across China are choosing local leaders by secret ballot from a slate of candidates that may include not only Communist Party members but also individuals with no affiliation. The farmers can unseat the bums who mismanaged the local electrification project or the crooks who pocketed irrigation fees and elect the "capable people" of their choice. By 2000, all of China's more than 1 million villages will operate under the system. Some say these local elections are diluting the Communist Party's power...
...commission oversees all elections, administers the census, and is currently directing the transition to computerized ballot-counting...
...bill despite some reservations about its language. With Landrieu's qualified support, the Republican leadership is just one vote shy of the needed two-thirds supermajority. With all 55 Republicans and 11 Democrats supporting the measure, the move means that freshman Senator Robert Torricelli will cast the deciding ballot in a vote that could come as early as next Friday. The New Jersey Democrat is being torn between loyalty to his party and abandoning the position he staked out in his fierce campaign. TIME Congressional correspondent Tamala Edwards reports from Washington that Senate passage could give the amendment enough momentum...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling preventing Arkansas from branding legislators who do not vote for term limits. The case involved Amendment 9, a state ballot initiative stipulating that elected officials who did not enthusiastically support a particular version of a term limits bill would get a nasty reminder come election day: the words "Disregarded Voter Instruction on Term Limits" would be placed on the ballot next to their names. Opponents have called the measure a "Scarlet letter" in ridicule, while supporters have defended their efforts as representative of the public will. The Arkansas court...
...medical use of marijuana "ought to be looked at and will be looked at." Such sane sensibility, however, has been rare of late from both the General and the administration he represents. More in line with government rhetoric and, more importantly, action, has been the General's campaign against ballot initiatives in Arizona and California which legalized the medical prescription of marijuana. Consider these hostile remarks delivered by McCaffrey on Court TV after the passage of both measures: "A physician who tries to prescribe a Schedule I drug [i.e. marijuana, or any other drug considered by the federal government...