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...both care about the environment and about sensible college finances is abstention. It should be noted that the result will inevitably be skewed by the fact that yesterday—the first day of voting—online ballots did not allow students to abstain from the EAC referendum if they chose to vote in the UC Presidential election. In response to a complaint, the Election Commission has now addressed the problem, though the ballot still carries a biased paragraph of information that never touches the real issue in implementing the EAC’s planned reforms: cost...
When Harvard undergraduates log onto their computers to vote in the Undergraduate Council (UC) election next week, their votes could have impact much further reaching than simply a handful of candidates for 2007. Students will have the opportunity to vote on a referendum co-sponsored by the UC and the Environmental Action Committee (EAC). The referendum calls on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) “to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to a level 11 percent below total emissions in 1990 by the year 2020.” We encourage students to vote “yes?...
About a week ago, Romney went so far as to devote his final month in office to the task of eliminating gay marriage in Massachusetts. He announced to little fanfare that he would do everything in his power to force a referendum question regarding gay marriage onto the next statewide ballot. This final goal of Romney’s is highly symbolic of his inconsequential four years in office. In fact, it may be his most shameless exploitation of a wedge issue to pander to his party base since he brazenly pushed for a “foolproof?...
...convention, the remaining two in the leading pack of candidates are St?phane Dion and Gerard Kennedy. Dion is a 51-year-old political science professor and former federal environment minister that then Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien recruited as his national unity crusader following the nearly disastrous Quebec independence referendum of 1995. Dion and Kennedy, a 46-year-old former Ontario education minister, are battling it out for third place. A Decima Research poll on the eve of the convention found that Rae led all four when respondents were asked which candidate they thought would do better against Harper...
...Chavez has bought all the people in the barrios," she said. She also told her son to vote for the President, wary that opposing Chavez could bar him from access to government jobs and programs. Her fears are not unfounded - countless people who signed in favor of holding a referendum to oust Chavez in 2004 say they're blacklisted and can't get a government...