Word: runoff
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...Attorney Gary Richardson persuaded the federal court jury that State House Speaker Dan Draper and his chief legislative lieutenant, Majority Floor Leader Joseph Fitzgibbon, had participated in a complicated vote-fraud scheme to steal a 1982 runoff election. The beneficiary: the speaker's father, Daniel D. Draper II, 72. But despite the help of at least 58 questionable absentee ballots, the elder Draper lost the race for the state house seat anyhow. And until last week, his son, one of only four politicians in the state's history to be elected speaker for three terms, was a very...
...leaders to work to erase the requirement in some localities that residents sign up on two separate registration rolls, sometimes in different towns, before they are eligible to vote. More controversial is his desire to eliminate second primaries, which pit an election's two top finishers in a runoff, a system that makes it more difficult for blacks to win where they are not in the majority. In Chicago, for example, which does not have a runoff in its Democratic mayoral primary, Washington was able to win with less than a majority because his two opponents split the white vote...
...order to make it to the two-man runoff, King may need to tap into the national Black political scene more often if he wants to convince local voters that he is more than just another angry ideologue...
...dams have had to open their floodgates wider than ever before. Last winter's Rocky Mountain snowpack was up to three times its usual thickness, and since Memorial Day it has been melting unusually fast. Southwesterners blame Bureau of Reclamation dam managers for not releasing more of the runoff earlier. Says William Claypool of Needles, Calif.: "Anyone over the age of eight who watched TV this winter should have known we would have problems...
...wiry bachelor and former state legislator, topped former District Attorney Dale Tooley, 49, by fewer than 4,500 votes, out of the record 155,000 cast in Denver's mayoral runoff. His election makes him the Mile High City's first Hispanic mayor and augments a small but growing group of influential and visible Hispanic leaders across the U.S. All Democrats, the club includes New Mexico Governor Toney Anaya and Mayors Maurice Ferré of Miami, Henry Cisneros of San Antonio and Louis Montaño of Santa Fe. When Peña, a political unknown...