Word: vote
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fill the ballot out in time and get it to where it must be. But how can I be invested in my vote when I played so passive a role in the decision-making. And why am I not particularly concerned? Apathy, cynicism, Generation Y malaise...
Exit polls? Maybe. Absentee ballots are counted long after winners are announced and propositions approved. Pundits mention that absentee ballots have yet to be counted, may tip the balance, but it is unlikely. So my carefully punched-in holes wallow away. Does every vote really count...
Next stop, we must throw down some roots, register where we live and vote at the neighborhood elementary school. We owe it to ourselves, and, yup, our country, to be the imaginary, responsible citizen I envisioned in high school--not apolitical but just hindered by the mail...
...course, the Election Commission has made the right decision in invalidating last week's results and scheduling new elections. And instead of banning any further postering, the commission should consider instead giving each candidate a small budget to reposter. Otherwise, the percentage of students who vote in the re-scheduled election may not exceed the single digits...
...Paula Jones suit before an appeals court revives it. Jones demanded $1 million (but no apology), Clinton offered $500,000, and the two sides are still talking, with a resolution possible sometime this week. But impeachment moves still seem unavoidable: the Republican-controlled Judiciary committee is expected to vote in favor of launching such an inquiry by next week, and the full House would then prepare to start hearings sometime after the November elections. In the bloodless trench warfare over the Clinton presidency, it seems to matter little that Americans want a swift outcome. But it is fair...