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...more collective and consultative in nature (a process that can complicate as well as facilitate negotiations). But the overriding concern among the key Palestinian factions is to avoid a chaotic succession struggle that will further weaken their national movement. The basis of a succession of Arafat's PA role, therefore, will be the holding of the first Palestinian legislative and presidential elections in eight years. Following the PA constitution, the speaker of the legislature, Rawhi Fattuh - a marginal figure with no independent power base - will act as president for 60 days, until elections can be held. The strongest candidate...
Philadelphia, Pa...
CHARLES ORLOSKI Taylor, Pa...
...anger is focused on local Republican officials, whom they accuse of applying election laws in ways designed to limit Democratic turnout--like Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell, who tried to reject tens of thousands of new registrations because they weren't printed on heavy enough paper. Around Scranton, Pa., the new G.O.P. majority on the county commission voted in mid-October to move 23 polling places, all of them in heavily Democratic neighborhoods. The stated rationale was that some were in dangerous locations, but other observers wondered why the commission members waited until this late to make that determination...
...electorate is polarized on the Iraq war, there is plenty of terrain on which to come together around issues that voters can do something about. "Locally, Democrats and Republicans have a lot in common," says Hank Mahoney, the Republican president of the local board of commissioners in Radnor Township, Pa. "We all want to keep taxes low, protect open space, pay the police and have the trash picked...