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...President of Portugal; in Lisbon. The Socialist Party candidate won 56% of the vote against 35% for his nearest rival, conservative candidate Joaquim Ferreira do Ama-ral, ensuring a first-round victory. Sampaio benefited from the lackluster opposition's low appeal, though his victory was tempered by poor voter turnout, with only half of those eligible going to the polls...
...sign of inflation. Conservative Party leader William Hague has not caught the country's imagination. They've got some pet issues, such as rising crime and opposition to Britain adopting Euro. But the government is not giving them very much of a target. There may be a lower turnout in this election, and Blair's margin of victory may be smaller in light of creeping disillusion among many voters who voted him in last time, but things are still well enough in Britain to give Blair a comfortable victory...
More incendiary, given the current climate, are charges that Ashcroft worked to suppress black voter turnout by twice vetoing laws that would have promoted voter-registration efforts in the City of St. Louis, which is half black and heavily Democratic. Voter registration there was the lowest in the state, Democrats charge, largely because the Ashcroft-appointed St. Louis election board, unlike boards in other counties, failed to deputize groups like the League of Women Voters to help increase voter registration. Ashcroft vetoed bills that would have ordered the board...
...election was relatively uncontested, with 14 students running for 11 positions. Voter turnout was also light, with fewer than 100 AAA members taking part...
Former Co-President Jenny I. Shen '01 attributed the low turnout to reading period as well as the small number of positions that were being contested...