Word: ballots
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...ballot statement, she expressed a desire to support the arts at Harvard. She also hopes to use her unusual perspective to "ask questions that aren't asked every day [and] take an interest in areas of the University that aren't interesting to anyone else...
Salt Lake City willhost the 2002 Winter Olympics. While boosters watched on a giant screen back home, delegates from the Utah capital sprang from their seats when the International Olympic Committee cast its ballot today in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, Sion, Switzerland and Quebec were the runners up. The decision brings the Winter Games to U.S. for the first time since 1980, when they were played in Lake Placid, N.Y. Salt Lake City has been lobbying for the honor since 1966. B.Y.O.B...
...didn't campaign or anything," he said. "I just put my name on the ballot to see what would happen -- maybe I could get scandalized ... or something cook like that...
Proponents of a computerized system say it would provide more accurate and faster results and would save costs over the longrun. Equipment expenses would be small compared to the costs of hiring a cadre of Cantabrigians to count ballot for seven or eight days every two years, according to Healy...
Todd F. Braunstein's '97 case was muchpublicized, in large part because it involved TheHarvard Crimson. Braunstein, a Crimson editor, wasaccused by the Undergraduate Council oftrespassing and tampering with council property.He entered the council offices for the purposes ofrecording potential ballot stuffing, by means of akey he believed a Council member provided.Braunstein's case was essentially dismissed,; hereceived a "scratch," which exonerates the studentcompletely of any wrongdoing. Despite hisagreement with the decision reached, Braunsteinstill says the system could have been better. Inparticular he would have liked the opportunity tocross-examine his accusers, a feature of the legalsystem that many students...