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With polls set to close at noon today, this year’s Undergraduate Council presidential elections appear to be headed for the lowest voter turnout in the last decade. The lower turnout may favor the two outsider tickets in a race in which current Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 has been cast as the clear favorite to win the presidency...
...consolidated power. The West could have seen it coming at any time from 2001, when Putin began a state takeover of the national television news, to more recently, when he tightened rules about how parties can win seats in parliament. But whatever implausible returns there were--like the 99% turnout with a 99% vote for Putin's party in war-torn Chechnya--Putin won because he is, undeniably, deeply popular...
...like Archimedes on a good day. His steady, good-humored performances in televised debates gradually lifted him out of the second tier and helped smother his main rival for evangelical affections, Sam Brownback of Kansas. Meanwhile, Huckabee has never lost sight of the core fact of the Iowa caucuses: turnout is minuscule. Because of inconvenient scheduling (on a school night and opposite the Orange Bowl this year) and arcane rules for voting, candidates can look like giant killers here with about as many votes as it takes to be elected to the Fresno school board. In this dreamland...
Election Commission Chairman Michael L. Taylor ’08 expressed disappointment with the turnout. But he added that about 1,700 students have voted online so far and that, if that rate persists, participation will be on par with previous years. —Bonnie J. Kavoussi contributed to the reporting of this article.—Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
Restrictive voter registration practices negatively affect the turnout of young voters, according to a study released this week. The study—released by the Student Public Interest Research Groups’ (PIRGs) New Voters Project—examined colleges in Arizona and New Mexico, states with especially restrictive voting laws, during the 2006 election cycle. Last year, students from the National Campaign at the Institute of Politics conducted a similar study, in which they analyzed voting restrictions in five states that required students to register or vote in person for their first election. The new study by the Student...