Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might hang in the balance. Conable, the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, strenuously objected, but Rostenkowski had a majority and decided to make the change anyway. Bailey promised that he would lobby to line up support for the bill and vote in favor if his ballot was needed for passage...
...plan for returning local power to Northern Ireland, which is now governed directly from London, British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland James Prior urged Irish Americans to stop supporting the I.R.A. with money and weapons. Said he: "The way to make progress in Northern Ireland is through the ballot box, not by the use of violence...
...Democrat Party (P.S.D.) failed to win the 1.5% of the vote required to register as a political party. The one real surprise in the election was that so many people voted. Despite fears of a low voter turnout, approximately 77% of Mexico's 31.6 million registered voters cast ballots. The relatively high level of voter participation is mainly credited to vigorous efforts of all parties to get their supporters to the ballot box. Said Fernando Marina Janet, president of the Mexico City Chamber of Commerce: "By voting, [the people] decided to continue along the democratic path...
...standards of any democracy, let alone the rough and tumble of British politics, it was an unusual way to pick a leader. Rather than leave the choice to its 30 Members of Parliament, the new Social Democratic Party mailed ballots to each of the 62,372 people who had paid $19 a year to join the party. To the surprise of pundits and pollsters, the final tally last week handed victory not to the underdog who had pressed for the ballot by mail but to the elder statesman who would no doubt have been the first choice of M.P.s...
Hundreds of towns and states have endorsed practically identical freeze resolutions, all of which call on President Reagan to pursue such a treaty with the Soviet Union. In California, campaigners for a bilateral freeze initiative, placed by petition on November's ballot, have an advertising budget of $1.2 million. Yet all the widely supported antinuclear initiatives are almost certain to be only symbolic outcries, since neither the House nor Senate is likely to heed the calls for an immediate nuclear freeze. In any case, Reagan is adamantly opposed; he believes such an arms control gambit would be a simplistic...