Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Electoral Farce; Yes to the People's War." Despite an F.M.L.N. promise to avoid disrupting the elections, roving guerrilla bands occupied remote towns and set up roadblocks along the country's central Pan American Highway, confiscating from passers-by the national identity cards needed to cast ballots. In the regional center of San Miguel, the rebels managed to destroy an aircraft carrying ballot boxes to local polling places. On Saturday, guerrillas ambushed and killed a contingent of 30 Salvadoran soldiers and national guardsmen 45 miles east of the capital of San Salvador...
Washington has gone to great lengths to ensure that balloting in the seven-man presidential race will be honest and efficient. The U.S. Agency for International Development has spent $3.4 million, part of which was used to help the Salvadorans install an elaborate Wang computer system that can tabulate results-and keep track of the birth dates, home towns and parental names of all 2.4 million potential voters. The system will allow refugees displaced by the civil war to cast their ballots anywhere in the country, an important provision in El Salvador, where voting is mandatory and where citizens...
...SALVADOR, the journey to the ballot box runs along the razor's edge. While many observers claim that Sunday's presidential election can do little to alter the situation in the war-torn country, two decisive outcomes are possible: the vote could either pave the way toward an acceptable solution to the civil war onset into motion a series of forces destined to bring the beleaguered nation to ruin...
...promised to put in an evening's work as an agitator (local volunteer) in the windup of this week's election of 1,500 deputies to the Supreme Soviet. As she settled beside the telephone, she prepared to advise voters on how to mark their ballots before putting them into the urna (ballot...
Thanks to a ballot the separates the delegate selection vote from the popular vote, Hart may in fact win in Florida without winning a majority of the delegates. Hart was so non-existent in Florida before New Hampshire that he was able to file for only 34 of the 84 delegate slots...