Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very idea of submitting a matter of national policy to a referendum was unusual enough. Only once before in its postwar history had Poland held such a ballot, in 1946, and the end result was to legitimize the Communist Party that has ruled the country ever since. But when Poland voted last week on a program of economic reform and austerity, something truly unprecedented occurred: a proposal that had the full backing of the government was firmly rejected. It was the first time in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe that the authorities had lost a vote...
...major candidates has a solid core of 20% support, while 10% could go to minor candidates and about 30% remain undecided. Given the size of the field and the fact that there will be no runoff, the winner may not need much more than 30% to 35% of the ballot...
Haiti's difficult struggle to find its way toward democracy could be seen on the ballots that a few voters got to use on Sunday. In the election for president as well as for 27 senators and 77 representatives, people were given a separate ballot for each candidate. Since some 80% of the country is illiterate, the ballots showed a picture of the candidate and his party symbol. Twenty-two people were running for president alone...
...campaign had invested heavily in Iowa, hoping that next February's caucuses would catapult him ahead of the pack, but recently he was passed in the polls there by Paul Simon and Michael Dukakis. So his well-honed organization planned to pack the hall and win a straw ballot at the Nov. 7 dinner, just as Jimmy Carter's supporters did twelve years ago. The problem: the Democratic Party has banned all such contests...
...Saturday morning, election workers began thesecond portion of the ballot-countingprocess--repeatedly retiring the candidate withthe fewest votes, then redistributing each of thatperson's ballots to candidates still in therunning--again following each voter's order ofpreference...