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Ideally, the Senate should abandon the public, roll-call procedure that it adopted in 1868 for President Andrew Johnson's trial and instead require the senators to vote anonymously at trial's end to acquit or convict...
Anonymous voting by legislatures is hardly unprecedented. Parliaments in many countries vote anonymously for the unseating of a member. In our own country, when no presidential candidate received a majority of the votes in 1800 and 1824, the House of Representatives voted by secret ballot to elect our president (and thus we got Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams...
...After the rejection of Lewinsky live, the Senate settled for Memorex. By a 62-38 vote, those still-hungry Republicans won their multimedia moment: Members -- and the nation -- will get to see and hear Lewinsky tell her story, familiar though it may be. Will it change any minds? Doubtful. That point was driven home by Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who followed his defeat on the videotapes with another one: A symbolic effort to skip right to closing arguments, which lost along strict party lines. But even as their party split on the Lewinsky question, Republicans scored a small victory when...
...politicking will likely last beyond the November vote, as the councillors start to jockey for the position of mayor...
Wang Shilan, 48, held four ballots. "I'm voting for my whole family because they're busy working," she explained. "They told me whom to vote for." When votes were tallied, Lei Mingxiang, 54, the high school principal and a five-term incumbent, was the surprise loser, a victim of parents' wrath. Earlier, Lei had asked each household to fork over 100 renminbi ($12), partly to cover repair of the school building. "What can I do?" he sighs. "The government does not have enough money...