Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wheatley won on the second ballot of the election, defeating Steven J. Mitby...
...Catherine Megret, who is married to the party's chief ideologue and second-in-command Bruno Megret, was elected mayor of the Marseilles suburb Vitrolles (pop. 39,000). She beat incumbent Socialist Jean-Jacques Anglade as a stand-in for her husband who had been disqualified in an earlier ballot. The NF already rules three other cities in southern France: Toulon, Orange and Marignane, another Marseilles suburb. Record unemployment and a large North-African immigrant population made all cities susceptible to the NF's anti-foreigner campaign. While mainstream politicians tried to downplay the most recent victory of Jean-Marie...
...years ago a group of first years decided that the best way to decide blocking groups was to follow an elaborate voting procedure using a secret ballot...
...pointed to ballot administrators who were encouraging people to vote for certain candidates, and House Committee hopefuls campaigning near the voting table--illegal practices that he said he and other people witnessed...
Some Miamians say it is time for the city, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, to disappear gracefully. These activists claim to have gathered more than the 12,000 signatures needed to get a referendum on the ballot in the next few months that would break up the city into Dade County. "You don't abolish the citizens, you don't abolish the streets and sidewalks. You abolish a political system that isn't working," says Rafael Kapustin, a downtown businessman...